Tom Gatti

Tom Gatti is executive editor, culture, books, ideas and print of the New Statesman.

Farewell to the iPod – and the age of the personal music library

The iPod, with its “shuffle” feature, was often accused of pushing listeners away from the album. Now it feels like a symbol of simpler times.

By Tom Gatti

By Lola Seaton, Michael Prodger, Tom Gatti and Ellys Woodhouse

By Tom Gatti

By India Bourke, Ellys Woodhouse, Tom Gatti and Lola Seaton

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On the band’s defining second album, Kurt Cobain found a golden ratio between melody and noise.

By Tom Gatti

All In It Together by Turner, Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Gaitskill, The 32, edited by McVeigh and Notes on the…

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Leo Robson, Tom Gatti and Katherine Cowles

How we rediscovered the pleasures of the album in the digital age.

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The literary highlights of the coming year span everything from big-picture investigations into the pandemic to moving personal memoirs. …

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Including Gary Younge on systemic racism, Timothy Snyder on the US’s “politics of pain” and our special issue on…

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From the planet’s last days to Thomas Cromwell’s: a 2020 reading list.

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The Booker Prize winner speaks to the New Statesman about her career and the state of modern fiction, three days after…

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“It’s not often that government legislation kick-starts a revolution,” Nick Clegg, the then deputy prime minister, wrote in 2014.…

By Tom Gatti