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From Marguerite Duras to Anthony Seldon: recent titles reviewed in short

Also featuring Bandit Country by James Conor Patterson and Looking To Sea by Lily Le Brun.

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The clash between Caesar and Cato offers lessons for today, but also reveals the gulf between modern and classical thought.

By Rowan Williams

A streak of pure nastiness runs through the author’s anarchic, beloved children’s literature – just as it did through his…

By Anna Leszkiewicz

In these retrospectively constructed “entries”, Hancock casts himself as the hero of both the Covid crisis and his love life.…

By Rachel Cunliffe

Siddharta Mukherjee’s new study of how cells work reveals the complexities of the human body – and the science that…

By Henry Marsh

New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of the year.

By New Statesman

The author says she prefers to read non-fiction because she senses so many novelists holding back due to “social censure”.…

By Tomiwa Owolade

Also featuring The Story of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski and Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow.

By Jeremy Cliffe, Oscar Williams, Christiana Bishop and Michael Prodger