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AN Wilson: the assembly-line intellectual

The writer’s exasperating new memoir offers a full dinner service of clichés and an insight into the glib fogeyism of…

By Johanna Thomas-Corr

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Catherine Called Birdy: The secret diary of a medieval teen

Catherine Called Birdy: The secret diary of a medieval teen

David Sexton

Hilary Mantel: “I had to be in middle age to imagine what the weight of life does to you”

Rachel Cooke

What the Huxleys got wrong

John Gray

Nick Cave’s second coming

George Eaton

How Homogenic brought Björk into focus

How Homogenic brought Björk into focus

Kate Mossman

Crossfire: a preposterous shoot-out drama for the Mumsnet generation

Rachel Cooke

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel: “I had to be in middle age to imagine what the weight of life does to you”

Hilary Mantel: “I had to be in middle age to imagine what the weight of life does to you”

Rachel Cooke

Hilary Mantel’s complex, conflicted Thomas Cromwell

Hilary Mantel’s complex, conflicted Thomas Cromwell

Rowan Williams

From the NS archive: The unquiet mind of Hilary Mantel

From the NS archive: The unquiet mind of Hilary Mantel

Sophie Elmhirst

Why we need Hilary Mantel’s critical snark

Why we need Hilary Mantel’s critical snark

Helen Lewis

Reviews

Radio & Podcasts

Why rare earth metals “hold the key to our future”

Anna Leszkiewicz

Book of the Day

The “Five Eyes” spies who fought the West’s secret wars

Jeremy Bowen

Henry Marsh confronts his mortality

Book of the Day

Henry Marsh confronts his mortality

Kathleen Jamie

The long shadow of Chairman Mao

Katie Stallard

Moonage Daydream is a lavish and loving profile of David Bowie

Ryan Gilbey

What Harold Wilson can teach Keir Starmer

What Harold Wilson can teach Keir Starmer

Peter Wilby

Interviews

Marcus Mumford lets go of shame

Marcus Mumford lets go of shame

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Tsitsi Dangarembga: “People started pointing fingers at me, saying ‘She’s a Western puppet!’”

Tsitsi Dangarembga: “People started pointing fingers at me, saying ‘She’s a Western puppet!’”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Anne-Marie Imafidon Q&A: "Men have often forgotten that women even exist"

Anne-Marie Imafidon Q&A: “Men have often forgotten that women even exist”

New Statesman

Fifty years of Richard Mabey’s Food for Free

Fifty years of Richard Mabey’s Food for Free

Alice Vincent

The long read

Death for her was a political act: why the Queen chose Scotland

Death for her was a political act: why the Queen chose Scotland

Elizabeth II did nothing by accident, including her final journey to Balmoral. Was she loading the dice for the Union?

By Tanya Gold