Tom Gatti

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

From Jim Crace to Cosey Fanni Tutti: recent books reviewed in short

Also featuring titles by Lawrence Osborne and Matthew Yeomans.

By Tom Gatti, Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Michael Prodger and Philippa Nuttall

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By Will Dunn, Michael Prodger, Rachel Cunliffe and Tom Gatti

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

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From politics and science to history and pop, the essential books for the year ahead.

By Tom Gatti

Notes From Deep Time by Gordon, Solid Ivory by Ivory, We Don't Know Ourselves by O’Toole and Sour Grapes…

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

This may seem like a small technical tweak, but it may be a crucial victory in the battle for…

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

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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…

By Tom Gatti