Gavin Jacobson

Gavin Jacobson is ideas editor at the New Statesman.

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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

Blood Legacy by Renton, Inflamed by Marya and Patel, The Island of Missing Trees by Shafak and Crying in H Mart by…

By Michael Prodger, Gavin Jacobson, Christiana Bishop and Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Often heralded as the best decade ever, the 1990s brought dark warnings about the future – and many have come…

By Gavin Jacobson

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…

By Gavin Jacobson