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Gavin Jacobson is commissioning editor at the New Statesman.
On Agoraphobia by Caveney, España: A Brief History of Spain by Tremlett, Bold Ventures by Van den Broeck and Homelands: The History of a Friendship by…
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Blood Legacy by Renton, Inflamed by Marya and Patel, The Island of Missing Trees by Shafak and Crying in H Mart by…
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The film-maker’s new series Can’t Get You Out of My Head explores why the age of individualism has left us uncertain, anxious and…
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How Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 dystopian masterpiece became the cultural exemplum of apocalypse, and a cardinal citation in the time…
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Jovial, clean-cut and impeccably tailored, Martin Hägglund has been hailed as “the most important young philosopher in America”. Born…
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Since its founding in 1843 the Economist has radiated an aura of omniscience. But its days of playing God…
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The influential Bulgarian intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 and on the crisis…
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Learning from the Germans is a formidable account of how Germany and America have come to terms with (or…
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From the Wild West to Trump’s border wall, the image of the frontier has enabled American imperialism.
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