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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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Also featuring The Story of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski and Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow.

By Jeremy Cliffe, Oscar Williams, Christiana Bishop and Michael Prodger

Siddharta Mukherjee’s new study of how cells work reveals the complexities of the human body – and the science that…

By Henry Marsh

How the Victorians bequeathed us their ideology of technoscientific progress.

By Duncan Bell

Katherine Rundell’s new book is a treasury of extraordinary animals endangered by human negligence and greed.

By Kathleen Jamie

New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of the year.

By New Statesman

The memoir of the American creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood is a rich story of drink, drugs and creative…

By Erica Wagner

In 1985, White Noise captured America’s nascent attention economy. Can an $80m Netflix adaptation live up to his vision?

By Chris Power