Gavin Jacobson

Gavin Jacobson is ideas editor at the New Statesman.

How The Last of Us turns the apocalypse into mindless entertainment

The latest show to profit from our obsession with dystopia reveals the limits of the genre.

By Gavin Jacobson

By Gavin Jacobson

By Gavin Jacobson

By Gavin Jacobson, Michael Prodger, Ellen Peirson-Hagger and India Bourke

By Michael Prodger, Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Gavin Jacobson and Pippa Bailey

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Despite its optimism, the close of the 20th century brought dark warnings about the future – and many have…

By Gavin Jacobson and Adrian Bradley

Budapest by Sebestyen, Hell’s Half Acre by Jonusas, Mother’s Boy by Jacobson and Hourglass by Goddard.

By Alix Kroeger, Gavin Jacobson, Michael Prodger and Pippa Bailey

The fantasy novelist and left activist on why Marx’s Communist Manifesto speaks to the crisis-ridden politics of the present.

By Gavin Jacobson

On Agoraphobia by Caveney, España: A Brief History of Spain by Tremlett, Bold Ventures by Van den Broeck and…

By Sophie McBain, Jeremy Cliffe, Michael Prodger and Gavin Jacobson

The philosopher and Nobel Prize winner on identity, decolonisation and how to change the world.

By Gavin Jacobson

The Shame Machine by O'Neil, The Trouble With Happiness and Other Stories by Ditlevsen, Here Again Now by Nzelu…

By Sarah Manavis, Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Katherine Cowles and Gavin Jacobson

Liz Truss’s comments on Ukraine have served to remind us of a long and radical tradition of militant solidarity.

By Gavin Jacobson

Silverview is a disappointing coda to his Cold War masterpieces.

By Gavin Jacobson