Stop worrying: teenagers are not internet-addled cyborgs with overdeveloped thumbs
. . . in fact, they are probably better at navigating a world of smartphones and social networks than we…
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Nadine Dorries’ book The Four Streets is a bad novel, riddled with Shamrockese
After her remarkable flights from fact in her statements on abortion, it’s disappointing to find that Dorries is just not…
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Looking more closely at the world through the sharp eyes of Lydia Davis
Often, Lydia Davis’s writing requires us to pay very close attention to things most of us choose to pass over.
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The Dark Box: a Secret History of Confession John Cornwell Profile Books, 288pp, £16.99 Nowadays the sacrament of confession occupies the…
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The ghost at the atheist feast: was Nietzsche right about religion?
John Gray reviews “The Age of Nothing” by Peter Watson and “Culture and the Death of God” by Terry Eagleton.
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“To say it country simple, most folks enjoy junk”: William S Burroughs on addiction, rehab and Opium Jones
On the centenary of his birth, we republish William S Burroughs's 1966 New Statesman essay on apomorphine, the drug which…
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Books of the Year 2013
The New Statesman’s friends and contributors choose their favourite books of 2013.
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The Cure, the new Penguin editions of Camus, and the details of presentation.
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