The Virago/New Statesman Women’s Prize for Politics & Economics
Prize-winning author and journalist Gillian Tett to lead the search for a new generation of women non-fiction writers.
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Chris Patten on Margaret Thatcher: strength and self-delusion
The second volume of Charles Moore’s biography paints Thatcher as the most partisan and domineering British prime minister since the…
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Urban sprawl: the supersized City on Fire from Garth Risk Hallberg
City on Fire is not bad, but it also is not great – and it might have been if it had been…
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Landscapes, wastelands, and New York: the NS recommends
New books from Jonathan Ames, Kate Brown and Olivia Byard.
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Sporting chaos: the history – and future – of cricket in Pakistan
Wounded Tiger: a History of Cricket in Pakistan and The Unquiet Ones: a History of Pakistan Cricket trace the challenges and…
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Thinking by post: Isaiah Berlin’s letters reveal how his ideas still hold relevance
One of the great liberal thinkers of the post-war period, Affirming: Letters 1975-97 makes clear the continuing relevance of Berlin’s thought.
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As a fellow expatriate, I recognise Bill Bryson’s grumpy paean to England
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island recreates the jouney of Bryson’s 20-year-old bestseller.
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Piercing the “silos” in government is challenging – but necessary
The Silo Effect: Why Putting Everything in Its Place Isn’t Such a Bright Idea by Gillian Tett gives an insight into a…
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