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The “trauma” of publishing a novel
I once found it risible to hear authors describe the publication process as “traumatising”. Then my first novel came out,…
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The 15 best books for summer 2023
The New Statesman’s selection of essential recent releases.
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How AE Stallings joined Oxford’s professor of poetry canon
The playful, unpredictable poet knows she is an outsider entering a male-dominated corpus.
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Milan Kundera’s sexual revolutions
The misunderstood author cared more about skirt-chasing than power politics.
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How do you purge an elite?
Patrick Deneen’s hostility to liberalism has made him a leading intellectual of the “New Right”. But his aristocratic populism is…
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Antonia Fraser: “I don’t like being unpopular”
The historian on growing up as “a boy”, her “last” biography, and the joy of having close male friends in…
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Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss
Sixty years ago, the French writer’s unflinching memoir of her mother’s death tested the limits of her existentialism.
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