Anatomy of a romantic hero
Curtis Sittenfeld’s Romantic Comedy presents a new male ideal: famous, feminist, fantastically handsome – and blind to your every flaw.
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My life, and finances, are summed up by my attempts to mash a potato with a fork
It was a uniquely dispiriting moment in a life rich with them, and my suspicion is that I am living…
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The cult of Sigmund Freud
The inventor of psychoanalysis attracted failed scientists and sexual opportunists, and built his legacy upon myth and error.
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From Max Porter to Xiaolu Guo: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In by Kieran Yates and Uproar by Alice Loxton.
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ITV’s Raoul Moat drama is sickening, cynical TV
The pain of Moat’s victims has been callously put aside, all to make another middling series with a middling cast.…
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Rachmaninoff’s enduring melodies
In his lifetime, his music was an escape from modernity – 150 years after his birth, the Russian composer bridges…
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The dark world of anorexia
Hadley Freeman’s Good Girls is ruthless and revealing on her illness but too soft on our culture’s damaging obsession with…
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The NS Poem: A Standstill
A new poem by Andrew Motion.
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Kristoffer Borgli’s Sick of Myself: the worst people in the world?
The wretchedly self-absorbed lead and her artist boyfriend are truly, absurdly awful. To what end?
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In 2013, few could have predicted the decade of political convulsions to come
In the ten years since our centenary edition the world has darkened considerably – and war has returned to Europe.
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A decade on from the New Statesman’s 100th anniversary, I’m flushed with reminiscence
During the austerity decade, life at the magazine was coloured by gifted colleagues and celebrity guest edits.
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John Gray on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I regret I didn’t criticise Tony Blair more”
The philosopher on his time writing for the magazine as an essayist and critic, 1996-present.
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Claire Tomalin on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I felt at home”
The biographer recalls her time as the magazine’s literary editor, 1974-1977.
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André Carrilho on 110 years of the New Statesman: “Putin has grown puffier”
The illustrator on working with the magazine since 2014.
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Rowan Williams on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I’m unrepentant about my guest-edit”
The former Archbishop of Canterbury on his time as a commissioning editor and critic, 2011-present.
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Cristina Odone on 110 years of the New Statesman: “We struck nerves”
The journalist recalls her time as the magazine’s deputy editor, 1998-2004.
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Letter of the week: A multipolar world
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Subscriber of the week: Paddy Maguire
Please email zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman’s subscriber of the week.
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Ralph Steadman on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I’d enjoy drawing Trump’s demise”
The illustrator on working with the magazine since 1976.
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Julian Barnes on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I did Martin Amis’s dirty work”
The novelist recalls his time as the magazine's deputy literary editor and TV critic, 1976-1981.
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