Erica Wagner: The ghost stories that haunted my childhood
A book – a hardback, bound in clear plastic – which I read, and then read again, feeling that fluttering sense of wonder and terror that…
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Erica Wagner is a New Statesman contributing writer.
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Paul Kingsnorth and the new climate fiction
Alexandria falls into the now well-established genre of “cli-fi” novels: dystopias that engage directly with the hell we are…
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A new exhibition at the British Museum reveals the power – and the precariousness – of the Arctic.
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The history of book burning
A new study of the destruction of knowledge explores how societies depend on fragile archives.
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David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue: a band Bildungsroman in the Swinging Sixties
The novel begins in 1967, in the clubs of London's psychedelic music scene, as the band find their groove…
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Rediscovering “Paris” by Hope Mirrlees, modernism’s lost classic
Paris was first published one hundred years ago by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press – two years before…
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The ship aground
A new poem from Erica Wagner.
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Grayson Perry: “We are living through a moment of shock”
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