Shon Faye wants a “deeper conversation” about trans liberation
The author of The Transgender Issue on the questions that really matter to trans people.
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Is climate writing too obsessed with “the science”?
The overwhelming evidence of global warming is the biggest problem that deniers face.
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How to survive an apocalypse
Bruno Maçães believes Covid has shattered the world order. But states are coping with the “end times” better than he…
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In her new novel, Sally Rooney looks her critics in the eye
Beautiful World, Where Are You despairs at the shallowness of fiction – and then embraces it.
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Reviewed in short: New books by Bobby Duffy, Paul Kenyon, Carol Leonnig and Claire-Louise Bennett
Generations: Does When You’re Born Shape Who You Are? by Duffy, Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story…
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How private schools create Britain’s emotionally stunted leaders
Boarding schools force boys to become cynical and detached. Then they grow up to run the country.
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Onstage for the first time since the pandemic, my public and private selves are in conflict
Halfway through my interview at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, I have an awful moment when I seem to disengage,…
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Richard Osman Q&A: “Do any New Statesman readers have a spare right knee?”
Richard Osman was born in Essex in 1970 and is a host on quiz shows including Pointless, which he created.…
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