Support 100 years of independent journalism.

UK Edition
- International Edition

Culture

Beyoncé’s Renaissance album is an exultant, daring return to sticky dancefloors

Referencing ballroom culture and Seventies disco, her new album will see you emerge from the club sweaty, bruised and ecstatic.

By Elliot Hoste

Photo of Beyoncé’s Renaissance album is an exultant, daring return to sticky dancefloors

When England’s women won the Euros

When England’s women won the Euros

May Robson

The NS Poem: city pastoral / summer

Andrew McMillan

The world still needs Neighbours

James Rawson

Philip Larkin at 100

The Wagatha Christie trial is over. But it lives on in our hearts

The Wagatha Christie trial is over. But it lives on in our hearts

Emily Bootle

In defence of Netflix’s Persuasion

Rachel Cunliffe

Reviews

Book of the Day

Nora Ephron and the art of self-narrative

Anna Leszkiewicz

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: how Putin exploited a wartime myth

William Boyd

Nietzsche before the breakdown

Book of the Day

Nietzsche before the breakdown

John Gray

Radio & Podcasts

BBC Radio 4’s Party’s Over is a perfectly timed tale of a disgraced prime minister

Rachel Cunliffe

The return of the road-trip movie

David Sexton

Reviewed in short: New books from Jonathan Freedland, Kate Molleson, Linda Villarosa and Benjamin Wood

Reviewed in short: New books from Jonathan Freedland, Kate Molleson, Linda Villarosa and Benjamin Wood

Michael Prodger, Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Gavin Jacobson and Pippa Bailey

Interviews

Margo Jefferson: “We were always performing desirable blackness”

Margo Jefferson: “We were always performing desirable blackness”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

John McEnroe’s Q&A: “You don’t win every time, no matter how good you are”

John McEnroe’s Q&A: “You don’t win every time, no matter how good you are”

New Statesman

Édouard Louis: “I dream of a world without politics”

Interviews and Profiles

Édouard Louis: “I dream of a world without politics”

Lola Seaton

Cold War Steve’s Q&A: “I still have a strong affection for the sound of a tent zip”

Cold War Steve’s Q&A: “I still have a strong affection for the sound of a tent zip”

New Statesman

The long read

The battle for the soul of English cricket

The battle for the soul of English cricket

When the former Yorkshire bowler Azeem Rafiq blew the whistle on racism within the sport, high-profile resignations and inquiries followed.…

By Emma John