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Kevin Keegan’s visions of the future

The footballer was restless, as if he never quite found what he was searching for.

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One wet summer over a century ago, Gilbert Jessop gave the country something to be cheerful about.

By Barney Horner

The history of assassinations, as Simon Ball points out in his book Death to Order, is one of myth-making, bungled…

By Ian Thomson

Also featuring Among Friends by Hal Ebbott and The Place of Shells by Mai Ishizawa.

By Zuzanna Lachendro, Catharine Hughes and Gabriella Berkeley-Agyepong

His oddball stories were driven by his outsider status and strange appearance.

By Frances Wilson

Also featuring Moveable Feasts by Chris Newens and Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy by Charles Darwent.

By Michael Prodger, Katie Stallard, Zuzanna Lachendro and Sebastian Page

Keith Houston’s history of the little emoticons charts how quickly technology has changed how we think and communicate.

By Will Dunn

The essential books of the year so far, according to New Statesman staff and contributors.

By New Statesman