The football club that data built
Brentford FC couldn’t outspend their Premier League rivals, so they decided to out-think them.
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Discover the latest non-fiction books and must-reads with the New Statesman’s expert reviews. Including biographies, music books, political writing and more.
The rise of the worried well
Caroline Crampton’s history of hypochondria shows how the internet has exacerbated health anxiety.
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The perils of polyamory
Molly Roden Winter’s riveting, explicit memoir More makes the case for open marriage as self-help – but her logic is…
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How America bought up Britain
From assets to businesses, the high street to the internet, US investors have a stranglehold on Britain’s economy.
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The fight to save the fractured Union
In an age of political alienation and resurgent nationalism, can the United Kingdom still hold?
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Shaking hands with Islamic State
When James Foley was murdered in Syria in 2014, his mother’s search for redemption began.
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Hitler, Putin and the information wars
Peter Pomerantsev’s new book shows how Second World War propaganda tactics are being used by the Kremlin today.
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The Nordic parenting myth
Scandinavians are not better parents – but their politicians, unlike Britain’s, understand that childcare is a social good.
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Escape from the oldest hatred
In Rachel Cockerell’s Melting Point, the forgotten story of America’s Jewish homeland sheds light on the tragedies of the present.
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Slave to the Bomb
We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.
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Your own personal Jesus
In the beginning there were many different sons of God – Western Christianity triumphed not by destiny but accident.
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Delusions of immortality
In Why We Die, Venki Ramakrishnan demolishes the crackpots and billionaires behind the anti-ageing industry.
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How Big Tech rewired childhood
Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation shows how smartphones have damaged the teenage mind – and urges us to fight back.
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Judith Butler and the fear of gender
In the 1990s a new philosophy helped open up alternative ways of being. Nobody predicted it would lead to war.
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Lauren Oyler’s defence mechanisms
Can the master of the hatchet-job place herself beyond criticism?
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The case against therapy in schools
A provocative new book argues that the therapy industry is exacerbating our children’s mental health crisis.
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Britain’s new oligarchy
Tom Burgis’s Cuckooland shows how the power to shape our politics is available to the highest bidder.
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How Iraq was lost
Steve Coll’s account of America’s relationship with Saddam Hussein reveals a series of devastating blunders.
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Leslie Jamison’s Splinters captures the paradoxes of motherhood
This intimate memoir explores the contradictions of being a parent, a partner and an artist – singly, and all at…
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From Lyndsey Stonebridge to Sophie Elmhirst: new books reviewed in short
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