Elsa Morante’s wild, compelling fiction
This vivid story of class and family by the rediscovered Italian novelist was where Elena Ferrante “discovered what literature can…
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Lessons from the afterlife
In A Second Act, intensive care doctor Matt Morgan collects stories from patients who returned from death. Can they teach…
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This England: Barking up the wrong tree
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Sathnam Sanghera: “Of course we’re doomed. It’s what gives life its fizz”
The author on life before tearing a hamstring and and George Michael.
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New year, same me
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that there’s no point in making aspirational resolutions.
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Somehow, I have earned the devotion of an ageing black Lab
He follows me everywhere, but slowly, on arthritic legs.
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Ethel Cain’s American Gothic
The singer found fame with her debut album in 2022 – but Perverts, a subversive horror movie of a record,…
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Walking is the soul’s preferred means of transport
Does doing something twice in two years count as a tradition? If so, we have a family tradition of going…
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The world in 2025
Seven questions that will define politics at home and abroad in the year ahead.
The BBC podcast In Dark Corners reveals a network of British predators
The journalist and survivor Alex Renton uncovers the “Paedophile Information Exchange”, a pro-paedophile group that campaigned throughout the 1970s
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The year ahead: Will the Musk-Trump bromance endure?
Now the common enemy, the Democratic Party, has been vanquished, their interests may diverge.
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The year ahead: Will US tariffs disrupt the global economy?
Donald Trump’s zero-sum economic thinking could make everything a lot more expensive for everyone.
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The year ahead: How could Germany’s election shape the EU?
The February vote looks likely to result in another grand coalition – yet much of the country’s inertia is structural.
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Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain is a masterpiece
This story of cousins visiting a concentration camp addresses the question of “Holocaust tourism” with intelligence, humour and compassion.
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No-fear Keir sidesteps naming Musk
Your daily dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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From Rochelle Gurstein to Philippa Found: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Pub by Philip Howell and Runaway Horses by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini.
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Letter of the week: The end of local government
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Labour’s politics of prevarication
The UK does not need another lengthy inquiry on care. What it does need is a government with the courage…
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The Syrian people yearn to take control of their own destiny
Bashar al-Assad has gone but, as elation begins to be edged out by anxiety, what comes after authoritarianism?
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