When God was an alpha male
How the Hebrew deity evolved from predatory strongman to a friend to human frailty.
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Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams is former Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012, and a contributing writer to the New Statesman.
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Notes on a crisis: With Covid and the climate crisis, we are failing the next generation
We are backing away from the job of resourcing young people to respond with intelligence, imagination and honesty.
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The photo that shaped me: Rowan Williams on Madeleine Delbrêl
Here she is, squatting down, head cocked, birdlike, to listen to a small girl.
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Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is a fantasy of exceptional beauty
The author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell returns with this remarkable novel.
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Shakespeare in disrupted times
“Shakespearean” as an adjective has had an unexpected currency in contemporary political journalism – but there are so many…
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Covid and confronting our own mortality
The pandemic has forced us to confront the issue of death: how do we think about dying, and what…
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Breaking the Renaissance myth
Culture and the universal genius were not the only things to thrive in this supposed golden age – so…
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From the NS archive: The government needs to know how afraid people are
9 June 2011: Rowan Williams, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, offers advice to the coalition.
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Hilary Mantel’s complex, conflicted Thomas Cromwell
Much has been made of the idiosyncrasy of Mantel’s treatment of Cromwell. But as her new novel demonstrates, she…
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