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The sick satisfaction of torturing Matt Hancock on I’m a Celebrity

Not only did I feel like a bully, I enjoyed feeling like a bully. But is reality TV the right place…

By Rachel Cooke

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The Mark Fisher generation

The Mark Fisher generation

Alex Niven

PJ Harvey on superstition, dialect and poetry

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

English National Opera is a cultural lifeline – but we have been decimated by cuts

Harry Brünjes

Yiyun Li’s The Book of Goose: in the shadow of Elena Ferrante

Johanna Thomas-Corr

When did The Crown get so boring?

When did The Crown get so boring?

Rachel Cooke

How Jacques Testard made Fitzcarraldo a prize-winning literary powerhouse

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Interviews

Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams: “Writers are subject to a sustained assault from the political class”

Goldsmiths Prize

Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams: “Writers are subject to a sustained assault from the political class”

Tom Gatti

Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka: “You don’t know who you’re going to offend”

Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka: “You don’t know who you’re going to offend”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Yara Rodrigues Fowler: “I wanted to disorient the Anglophone reader”

Goldsmiths Prize

Yara Rodrigues Fowler: “I wanted to disorient the Anglophone reader”

Ellys Woodhouse

Leah Thomas’s Q&A: “My earliest memory involved a priest, a rabbi and a firefighter”

Leah Thomas’s Q&A: “My earliest memory involved a priest, a rabbi and a firefighter”

New Statesman

Reviews

Jafar Panahi’s No Bears shows the political power of filmmaking

Ryan Gilbey

The tragedy of English football

Michael Henderson

Chelsea Manning and the price of knowledge

Book of the Day

Chelsea Manning and the price of knowledge

Megan Gibson

Book of the Day

Bob Dylan’s problem with women

Jude Rogers

Book of the Day

Mary Lou McDonald: behind the respectable face of Sinn Féin

Martin Fletcher

Why do humans kiss? Procrastinate? Take risks?

Why do humans kiss? Procrastinate? Take risks?

Rachel Cunliffe

The long read

Will there be a great CD revival?

Will there be a great CD revival?

Forty years after their launch, compact discs remain cheaper and more sonically reliable than vinyl.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger