The NS Podcast #126: Benn, by-election and books
The New Statesman Podcast takes the political temperature in the aftermath of the vote on Syria.
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The Camus of the crime thriller: behind the Jack Reacher books
Andy Martin’s Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of “Make Me” gives us a fly-on-the-wall view of the crime…
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White whale in the big smoke: How the geography of London inspired Moby-Dick
Late at night, Herman Melville “turned flukes” down Oxford Street as if he were being followed by a great whale, and…
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Jonathan Coe’s Number 11 is a bitingly dark portrait of society
A spider’s web of money binds lives together in Coe’s state-of-the-nation novel.
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Video games will shape how we understand the world
Gaming is frequently touted as an escape from the world – but it can also be a guide to it.
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How “cli-fi” novels humanise the science of climate change
The paradox is that the harder climate-fiction novels try, the less effective they are.
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What is “narrow banking“ – and could it put finance right?
Other People’s Money and Between Debt and the Devil approach finance from different angles, but arrive at a single policy.
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In an age where history is neatly divided, two new books take a longer view
The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley and Human Race by Ian Mortimer have, to put it gently, an abundance…
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