From Iain Sinclair to Colombe Schneck: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Going Home by Tom Lamont and The Roads to Rome by Catherine Fletcher.
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There is no cultural armada behind today’s left
Our artistic consumption has become divorced from our political imagination.
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The seismic radicalism of Nigel Farage
Liberals and mainstream Conservatives loathe him. But he understands something important about the fractious mood in the country.
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Love, loathing and Lucian Freud
Rose Boyt’s memoir of her controlling father reveals a relationship defined by cruelty and shame.
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The left power list 2024
The 50 most influential people shaping Britain’s progressive politics.
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The Born in the USA fallacy
Forty years ago Bruce Springsteen’s bleak portrait of America’s discarded working class was miscast as a patriotic anthem.
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John Burnside’s soul music
The late poet, novelist and New Statesman columnist was equally attuned to the natural world and what lies beyond it.
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The insular world of Rachel Cusk
The novelist’s fans revere her ruthless restraint – but in Parade it leads to a narrative dead end.
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Wigan’s underdog spirit
A northern takeover of Wembley, a D-Day tribute, and the greatest try ever.
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I’m good in a crisis, but not if that crisis is a lost passport
I am off on a travel-writing gig to e-bike in Lower Silesia, or at least I am meant to be…
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Cerys Matthews Q&A: “What’s bugging me? Superfluous adjectives”
The musician and broadcaster on Pippi Longstocking, the extraordinary life of Fridtjof Nansen and the poetry of Dylan Thomas.
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The drama of Carlo Gesualdo
The vocal ensemble the Gesualdo Six on the Renaissance composer’s arresting and daring works.
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the franchise’s grandest, most expensive yet
If you’ve ever relished a Mad Max film, make sure to see this one at the biggest, loudest screening possible.
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Not all memorable meals should be photographed
At a Tennessee breakfast spot, I was so ashamed by the scale of what I was about to consume I…
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The theatre and the misery of VAR
The refereeing technology has made football a better TV sport – and ruined the live game.
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A dramatic Premier League finish – plus Postecoglou, pin-ups, and a distinguished pigtail
Man City win again, but at least I can produce a shock in my end-of-season awards.
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Whooping cough’s deadly epidemic cycle
When the baby stopped breathing and started turning purple, I saw the real effect of this persistent disease.
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This England: Up, boy! Up!
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The Chelsea Flower Show goes green
A focus on rewilding and sustainability has not diminished what the world-famous garden show does best.
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