Books of the year 2022
New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of the year.
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What Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gets wrong about free speech
The author says she prefers to read non-fiction because she senses so many novelists holding back due to “social censure”.…
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Reviewed in short: From Derek Owusu to Luke Harding
Also featuring The Story of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski and Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow.
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What cells tell us about life
Siddharta Mukherjee’s new study of how cells work reveals the complexities of the human body – and the science that…
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Britain’s empire of science
How the Victorians bequeathed us their ideology of technoscientific progress.
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Fantastic beasts and how to save them
Katherine Rundell’s new book is a treasury of extraordinary animals endangered by human negligence and greed.
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How David Milch reinvented TV drama
The memoir of the American creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood is a rich story of drink, drugs and creative…
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What Don DeLillo saw coming
In 1985, White Noise captured America’s nascent attention economy. Can an $80m Netflix adaptation live up to his vision?
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