Sophie Elmhirst
Sophie Elmhirst is a contributing writer at the New Statesman. She previously worked for Save the Children, the Guardian and Prospect.
Articles by Sophie Elmhirst
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UK Politics
Q&A: Shabana Mahmood MP
- 16 August 2011
“There are some very well-to-do people that did some stupid stuff in my city.”
Art
The NS Interview: Jake and Dinos Chapman, artists
- 15 August 2011
“We look at our work and think: why do we have to do this?”
Books
The Books Interview — Stefan Merrill Block
- 15 August 2011
The author of the award-winning Story of Forgetting talks about his second novel, the past, America, his grandfather and legacies of madness.
Asia
Arundhati Roy — “Every day, one is insulted in India”
- 21 July 2011
- 24 comments
After winning the Booker Prize in 1997, Arundhati Roy could have been a “pretty lady who wrote a book”. Instead, she took up a host of political causes . . . and fell out with her country’s elite.











