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In the Seventies
- Philip Larkin
- 07 February 2008
Taken from The New Statesman 27 January 1978
Selected by Robert Taylor
A National Serviceman's postscript
- Anthony Howard
- 24 January 2008
- 2 comments
Taken from The New Statesman1 February 1958
America's Suez?
- Paul Johnson
- 17 January 2008
- 1 comment
Taken from the New Statesman, 9 February 1968
A note on Irish nationalism
- George Bernard Shaw
- 10 January 2008
- 1 comment
In this selection from the New Statesman archive George Bernard Shaw writes on the situation in Ireland
Journey to Sweden
- Raymond Postgate
- 03 January 2008
- 1 comment
Taken from The New Statesman 9 April 1938
The Booksmith: Melvyn Bragg
- Melvyn Bragg
- 06 December 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 8 April 1977
For more than 40 years, Melvyn Bragg has been a kind of Renaissance man of radio and television, conversant with science and philosophy, history and literature. In this affectionate and then anonymous profile of him, written for the New Statesman in 1977, Julian Barnes accurately predicted that Bragg would move on to a career in politics. Now a Labour peer, Bragg continues to thrive in the media, enthusiastically spreading culture to the masses.
Selected by Robert Taylor
Living like heroes
- Norman Mailer and Richard Wollheim
- 15 November 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 29 September 1961
The American writer Norman Mailer, who died on 10 November, visited Britain in 1961 to launch his book, Advertisements for Myself. He was interviewed for the New Statesman by the philosopher Richard Wollheim.
In the resulting question-and-answer session, Mailer revealed himself to be an individualistic hellraiser with an alarming taste for violence, a hip philosophy of physical action and more ego than id.
Selected by Robert Taylor
