Michael Prodger

Michael Prodger is associate editor at the New Statesman.

From Stephen King to Noah Eaton: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring A Perfect Harmony by David Darling and “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer” edited by Mary Beth Norton.

By Zuzanna Lachendro, Michael Prodger and George Monaghan

By Michael Prodger

By Michael Prodger

By Catharine Hughes, Harry Clarke-Ezzidio, Michael Prodger and Rachel Cunliffe

By Michael Prodger, Zuzanna Lachendro, Sydney Diack and Megan Kenyon

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How the sculptor Johann Joachim Kändler made porcelain an object of desire across 18th-century Europe.

By Michael Prodger

Also featuring Cooking in the Wrong Century by Teresa Präauer and The Lost Orchid by Sarah Bilston.

By Zoë Huxford, Zuzanna Lachendro, Michael Prodger and Barney Horner

Also featuring The Dream Factory by Daniel Swift and The Fall of the House of Montagu by Robert Wainwright.

By Michael Prodger, Zuzanna Lachendro and Nicholas Harris

This year marks the 250th anniversary of his birth, but it was a midlife encounter with two landscapes that…

By Michael Prodger

A huge retrospective gives the authorised version of this prolific artist’s career.

By Michael Prodger

Also featuring Operation Bowler by Jonathan Glancey and Lesbians: Where Are We Now? by Julie Bindel.

By Michael Prodger, Zuzanna Lachendro, Hannah Barnes and Sydney Diack

Also featuring Affairs: True Stories of Love, Lies, Hope and Desire by Juliet Rosenfeld and The Story of Witches:…

By Zuzanna Lachendro, Michael Prodger, Kate Mossman and Zoë Huxford

The painter’s portraits reveal less a tortured loner than a man who thrived in company.

By Michael Prodger