The New Society | culture from the New Statesman
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John Berger taught a generation to look at paintings and then to distrust the people selling them. He won the Booker Prize in 1972 and used his acceptance speech to criticise the sponsor, then gave half the money to the…
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Four hundred years on, we still can’t stop reading about the Tudors, and nobody has fed that habit better than Philippa Gregory.Often called the queen of British historical fiction, Gregory has sold millions of books by…
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In this week’s magazine, we published an open letter, signed by over 150 leading authors, artists and public figures, titled “Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist”.…
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Carlo Rovelli is a physicist. But he’s also so much more than that. Perennially on lists of the world’s top thinkers, Rovelli likes to think and think hard, about the big questions, where physics meets philosophy and…
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You know what you know, and I know what I know, but only when we know what the other knows do we have common knowledge.That’s the crux of cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker’s latest work, focusing on the shift from…
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Every story, they say, needs a beginning, a middle and an end; every story needs a setting. What if that isn’t true? Can you write when everything is in flux, when you are unmoored from places, and when the time is out…
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"We live in a world that deserves unicorns," says Katherine Rundell.If you haven't come across Rundell's work yet, you will soon. She's written over a dozen books, including an award-winning biography of John Donne and…
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A third of British adults who used to read for pleasure don't anymore.And according to the OECD, literacy itself, not just the habit of it, is declining or stagnating across most of the developed world.In a new book,…
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Terror has sought Salman Rushdie out time and time again for the past 40 years, ever since the controversial publication of his novel The Satanic Verses and the furious response to it from much of the Muslim world.He…
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Historical fantasy, campus satire, industry exposé; five books in, and no one's quite worked out what a "RF Kuang novel" is supposed to look like. That's rather the point.This September she publishes her sixth: Taipei…
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- Oldest episode in feed
- 12/2025
- Typical length
- 38 min
- Format
- Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
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