Jonathan Derbyshire

Books

The Books Interview: A L Kennedy

• 30 July 2009

The Man Booker longlist

• 28 July 2009
• 1 comment

Byatt and Coetzee among some familiar names

Parasites or pioneers?

• 28 July 2009

On the "polemical excesses" of the blogosphere

A night at the museum

• 26 July 2009
• 1 comment

Wynton Marsalis pays homage to the history of jazz

International Politics

The NS Profile: Amartya Sen

• 23 July 2009

The Nobel Prize-winning economist is inspiring Labour politicians with his theory that inequalities of power matter as much as inequalities of income

The News as a Novel

• 22 July 2009

Gordon Burn and the ability to "disclose that which exists"

Books

The Books Interview: Niall Ferguson

• 02 July 2009

Niall Ferguson, contributing editor of the Financial Times and author of The Ascent of Money gives his views on the current financial crisis

Books

The Books Interview: Andrew Gamble

• 18 June 2009

UK Politics

How the left lost its language

• 18 June 2009
• 2 comments

The global crisis exposed the intellectual hollowness of our politics. Despite signs of renewal, there’s still a long way to go.

Philosophy

The NS Profile: Michael Sandel

• 04 June 2009

A public intellectual, he delivers lectures at Harvard that are wildly popular. He preaches that the ‘‘vacuum’’ of modern politics can only be remedied by a return to morality