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
In the second in a series of essays on nature and landscape, Richard Mabey sees a premonition of spr
An interview with Tom Holland, author of In the Shadow of the Sword.
Edward Platt returns to the north-east, where he lived as a boy. In Newcastle, he discovers brave ne
Why writers have little use for literary theory
A short story by Alexander McCall Smith of The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency fame, exclusive to the New Statesman.
View our print and digital subscription offers:
