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The stories in her zeitgeisty collection Show Don’t Tell are dated by their cultural references, but their astute observations are timeless.
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Anna Leszkiewicz is senior commissioning editor at the New Statesman.
The stories in her zeitgeisty collection Show Don’t Tell are dated by their cultural references, but their astute observations are timeless.
By Anna LeszkiewiczThe dream that One Direction represented now seems an obvious nightmare.
By Anna LeszkiewiczThis imaginative orchestral reworking of her debut album Lungs was part film score, part pop song, and totally euphoric.
By Anna LeszkiewiczThe investigative series Hysterical provides a compelling listen about the mind, the body and girlhood in small-town America.
By Anna LeszkiewiczHow the writer’s Tavistock Square statue became a battleground for her legacy.
By Anna LeszkiewiczThe Fleetwood Mac singer is 76 years old – but she doesn’t sound it.
By Anna LeszkiewiczLittle Simz and SZA made Coldplay look bland in a festival full of politics, nostalgia and peeing in cups.
By Anna LeszkiewiczThe pop star won the diverse festival crowd over by giving her usually light as air, candy floss pop…
By Anna LeszkiewiczAt Wembley Stadium, the pop star presented a kaleidoscopic, whiplash-inducing spectacle that passed by in a blur.
By Anna Leszkiewicz