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The Books Interview: Jodi Kantor

By Jonathan Derbyshire

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The NS Profile — Claire Tomalin

The NS Profile — Claire Tomalin

The award-winning writer and former New Statesman literary editor hangs up her biographer’s coat with a life of Dickens . . . and contemplates one of her own.

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“If music can be art, why can’t food?”

“If music can be art, why can’t food?”

Nathan Myhrvold was Stephen Hawking's researcher and Bill Gates's right-hand man at Microsoft. Now, he's written a £395 cookbook

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Being Christopher Hitchens

Being Christopher Hitchens

The author and controversialist Christopher Hitchens has cancelled all appointments and begun chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus. Shortly before this news, he talked to George Eaton about his life and his work.

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Interviews

The Books Interview: Marwan Bishara

The Books Interview: David Cannadine

The Books Interview — Chad Harbach

The critic and n+1 editor talks about his first novel, The Art of Fielding, baseball and literary influences from Whitman through Thoreau to David Foster Wallace.

The value of a quiet voice

The value of  a quiet voice

The Fixer

The Fixer (BBC2)

Ralph Fiennes

The NS Interview: Ralph Fiennes

The Muppets return

Gilbey on Film: We need to talk about Kermit

A life in pictures

Charles Dickens: snapshots of a life

Hemingway's Boat

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved  in Life, and Lost (1934-61)

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Our film awards

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