In this week's magazine Spring Double Issue

09 April 2012

Observations
- “People will laugh at you if you sound like that”
  When A L Kennedy was growing up in Dundee, she was taught to sound English. It was only in exile that she embraced her Scottishness
  By A L Kennedy
- Where two kinds of wildness collide
  In the second in a series of essays on nature and landscape, Richard Mabey sees a premonition of spr
  By Richard Mabey
Columns
Features
- “People will laugh at you if you sound like that”
  When A L Kennedy was growing up in Dundee, she was taught to sound English. It was only in exile that she embraced her Scottishness
  By A L Kennedy
- Birth of a religion
  An interview with Tom Holland, author of In the Shadow of the Sword.
  By Nabeelah Jaffer
- Where two kinds of wildness collide
  In the second in a series of essays on nature and landscape, Richard Mabey sees a premonition of spr
  By Richard Mabey
- All agog on the Tyne
  Edward Platt returns to the north-east, where he lived as a boy. In Newcastle, he discovers brave ne
  By Edward Platt
Critics
- Shots are like a bullet or a bad man
  By Nina Caplan
- Review: One Direction in America (Radio 1)
  By Antonia Quirke
- Review: The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic)
  By Andrew Billen
- Review: Le Havre
  By Ryan Gilbey
- The Books Interview: Barbara Demick
  By new-statesman
- Review: The Event of Literature by Terry Eagleton
  Why writers have little use for literary theory
  By Adam Kirsch
- “The Director”: a short story by Alexander McCall Smith
  A short story by Alexander McCall Smith of The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency fame, exclusive to the New Statesman.
  By Alexander McCall Smith
- Review: Cheek by Jowl - a History of Neighbours by Emily Cockayne
  By Peter Wilby
- Review: Savage Continent - Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe
  By Richard Overy
Backpages
- They can’t quite squeeze me on to Newsnight, but I don’t care
  By Nicholas Lezard