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Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles - review
By Sarah Churchwell - 26 July 10:08
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Time running out: lunch hour at Canary Wharf. Photo: Eyevine
Will Hutton: the growth delusion
By Will Hutton - 26 July 10:03

The case for a new political economy is laid out in three new books.

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Rules of Attraction
Gilbey on Film: Adapting Bret Easton Ellis for the screen
By Ryan Gilbey - 20 July 18:09

Director Paul Schrader has started shooting "The Canyons" with an original screenplay by Bret Easton Ellis.

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Clarissa Harlowe from the novel 'Clarissa, Or The History Of A Young Lady'
Forget Mummy Porn, read the 18th-century Fifty Shades of Grey
By Helen Lewis - 18 July 17:19

The debate about the erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey has focused on its newness – but it’s better understood as a throwback to the 18th century.

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Morrissey
Morrissey and Marr: the Severed Alliance - review
By Stuart Maconie - 18 July 16:54

Back to the old house.

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Stone Arabia - review
By Leo Robson - 18 July 16:49
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Bowie plays his final Ziggy Stardust show in London in 1973.
When Ziggy Played Guitar – review
By Yo Zushi - 18 July 16:44

Hero-worshipping David Bowie.

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Sir Simon Rattle
Music as Alchemy - review
By Suzy Klein - 18 July 16:39

The age of the super conductor.

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Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion under a portrait of Theodor Herzl
How the dream died
By Geoffrey Wheatcroft - 18 July 16:32

Liberal American Jews are falling out of love with Israel.

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Laurent Binet
HHhH by Laurent Binet - review
By Rosie Goldsmith - 17 July 18:44
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Martin Amis
Why are we obsessed with the state-of-the-nation novel?
By Jonathan Coe - 12 July 11:28

The authors taking Britain's pulse.

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Tony and Cherie Blair attending Philip Gould's funeral
When I Die: Lessons from the Death Zone - review
By Tony Blair - 12 July 11:17

Sense of an ending.

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Former National Front member Matthew Collins
The Books Interview: Matthew Collins
By Daniel Trilling - 11 July 17:30

The author of "Hate: My Life in the British Far Right" explains what drives people towards extremist groups like the BNP and the National Front.

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The Books Interview - Carmen Bugan
By Jonathan Derbyshire - 11 July 16:07
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The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz - review
By Robert Kuttner - 11 July 15:58

Why politicians should listen to Joseph Stiglitz. By Robert Kuttner

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Fifty Shades of Grey's cover
In defence of Fifty Shades of Grey
By Laurie Penny - 08 July 11:09

Critics' main problem with these books seems simply to be that they are porn for women.

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Belgian writer Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Rethinking the detective novel: Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Reticence
By Juliet Jacques - 05 July 15:34

A mysterious narrator, tricks of the mind and admirably pragmatic prose.

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The seaside holiday like the crime novel, will never really change. Photo: Getty
Sun, sea and cyanide
By Travis Elborough - 04 July 15:06
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Enoch Powell at a meeting in London. Photo: Getty Images
Enoch at 100: a Re-evaluation of the Life, Politics and Philosophy of Enoch Powell - review
By Vernon Bogdanor - 04 July 12:49

A false prophet.

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Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine. Photo: Getty Images
Mr Churchill’s Profession by Peter Clarke - review
By Douglas Hurd - 04 July 12:31

Winston Churchill's literary career.

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David Cameron speaks at St Stephen's Club, Westminster. Photograph: Getty Images
What does David Cameron want?
By Jason Cowley - 04 July 11:03

The Prime Minister's lack of originality.

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Possibly the most famous breasts in the world. Photo: Getty Images
The curious science of breasts
By Helen Lewis - 27 June 17:18

Florence Williams's excellent book shines light on a much-misunderstood part of the body.

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Acting Antigone and Polynice in an adaptation of Sophocles. Photo: Getty Images
Antigonick by Anne Carson - review
By Olivia Laing - 27 June 17:03

Such a devoted sister

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Communist leaders including Stalin and Trotsky. Photo: Getty Images
Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge - review
By John Gray - 27 June 15:54

Red or dead.

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Young musician of Simón Bolívar Youth Symphonic Orchestra. Photo: Getty Images
Soul Music: the Pulse of Race and Music by Candace Allen - review
By Guy Dammann - 27 June 15:31

How it feels to be free

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Lyndon Johnson with his new Cabinet in 1967. Photo: Getty Images
The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Volume IV: The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro - review
By Andrew Adonis - 27 June 13:06

Lyndon Johnson's dream of the Great Society.

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Illustration by Sam Green
Perfect and private things
By John Burnside - 20 June 17:01

An exclusive short story for the New Statesman by poet and author John Burnside.

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Barack Obama: the Making of the Man by David Maraniss - review
By Alec MacGillis - 20 June 12:09

Hawaii's big-O.

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A collection of letters. Photo: Getty Images
My Dear Governess: the Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann - review
By Sarah Churchwell - 20 June 11:45

Edited by Irene Goldman-Price.

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Actor made up for the part of 'Othello'. Photo: Getty Images
Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips - review
By Talitha Stevenson - 20 June 11:23

You only live twice

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