Why the internet doesn’t mean “the end of forgetting”
Kate Eichorn’s new book The End of Forgetting fails to grasp the extent to which we are already haunted by our…
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“We are pretty invisible in fiction”: Bernardine Evaristo on power, racism and her wild Eighties days
The Booker Prize winner speaks to the New Statesman about her career and the state of modern fiction, three days after she…
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George Steiner and the death of the great cultural critic
From the archive: Susan Sontag, Harold Bloom, and Steiner once bestrode the public realm but their reputations have faded. What does…
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Why poetry matters
The story of 20th-century poetry teaches us that language is not a luxury: we need the right words in order…
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NS recommends: new books from Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde, Ruth Kinna and Fatima Bhutto
Wigmore and Wilde’s Cricket 2.0, Kinna’s The Government of No One, and Bhutto’s New Kings of the World.
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How Doris Lessing’s politics began in the veld
Looking back on Lessing now, exactly a hundred years after her birth, it’s the freedom with which she thought and acted for…
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Tricky’s memoir Hell is Round the Corner is a sterling lesson in stoicism
Despite the suicides of his mother and eldest daughter, Tricky’s prose is never self-pitying.
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Amy Arnold’s Slip of a Fish: an admirable, determined novel
This Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel commits itself absolutely to portraying the troubled state of mind of its protagonist.
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