The core message of Terry Pratchett’s books was that people should think for themselves
As a row blazes over what the bestselling author would have thought about trans rights, his biographer reflects on the…
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The best books about the Covid-19 pandemic
From modern science to literary classics, the New Statesman rounds up ten of the best pandemic reads.
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Lucy Kellaway’s Re-educated is a breezy memoir about changing her job, house and marriage
This is three books in one: a tongue-in-cheek account of one woman’s midlife crisis, a dissertation on modern education, and…
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Reviewed in short: New books by Alwyn Turner, Mary Gaitskill, Paul McVeigh and Luke Kennard
All In It Together by Turner, Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Gaitskill, The 32, edited by McVeigh and Notes on the Sonnets…
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Echo and the Bunnymen before the killing moon
Guitarist Will Sergeant on growing up poor and embracing post-punk in Seventies Liverpool.
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The best children’s books of the summer
Featuring moths, maids and mermen.
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How history haunts the present
This tumultuous age demands that we rethink our relationship with the past.
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Caitlin Moran Q&A: “I owe Nye Bevan almost all of my pain-free wazzing“
The journalist discusses Laura Bates’s Men Who Hate Women, Jim Henson and town planning.
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