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This series of fascinating vignettes by the New Statesman editor attempts to map the emergence of the nation today
Leftwing journal embarks on biggest expansion in 108-year history, led by US and EU markets
A profound sense of loss flows through Jason Cowley’s essays on the state of the nation
An earthquake hits Israel in Foer’s first novel in 10 years, but the more convincing drama lies closer to home
A new biography of Attlee emphasises his ‘unobtrusive progressive patriotism’
AE Housman’s ‘A Shropshire Lad’ captures a quintessentially English regret which still resonates today
A billionaire pays to save his wife’s life through cryonics in Don DeLillo’s funny and lucid meditation on high-tech adventurism
George Smiley’s creator is more than a genre specialist — he is one of the most accomplished postwar British novelists
The author’s most recent essays and poems are haunted by death — yet radiate life
Ogres and dragons are not what we expect from the Man Booker Prize winner. Yet his first novel for a decade is absolutely characteristic, moving and unsettling
The English writer is revealed in all his fierce integrity in a new collection of journalism
Sarah Churchwell goes in search of the inspiration for F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece
This series of review-essays draws overlapping portraits of writers’ relationships with their families
American novelists have never been afraid to tackle sport. But will British authors ever take it seriously?
Christopher Hitchens’ fierce certainties make for fine polemic but they have often obscured reality
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