John McCain’s last stand
John McCain ended his career in his inimitable fashion.
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Lost boy: the meanings and motivations of Michael Jackson
Jackson wanted his career to be “the greatest show on earth”, but he paid for it with his childhood.
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On Philip Roth, Trump and the terror of the unforeseen
Following news that the great American author has died at the age of 85, we republish an essay by New Statesman editor…
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From neanderthals to robots: the history of human speech
The Queen’s annual Christmas speech provides an opportunity to trace the evolution of a voice: hers has dropped one semitone…
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Problems: Jade Sharma’s graphic, funny, relentless debut novel
Problems is explicit, shocking and sure to incite conversation.
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The British Empire strikes back
How dreams of the “Anglosphere” returned to British politics.
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The poet of ordinary days: William Trevor’s quiet artistry
Trevor was the literary heir of Chekhov, Maupassant and James Joyce: and one of the great contemporary chroniclers of the…
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Vladimir Putin’s politics of victimhood
Putin paints Russia as the underdog to keep his citizens, like those of Oceania in Nineteen Eighty-Four, in a permanent…
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