Biographies

Read all the latest reviews from New Statesman writers of biographies and memoirs.

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

By New Statesman

His vexatious, evolving style demonstrates a capacity to face the world as sensitively and honestly as possible.

By Tomiwa Owolade

In reviving local and popular musical traditions, the composer found haunting new expressions of Englishness.

By Rowan Williams

A new biography shows how one of Labour’s most successful leaders kept the party united at all costs.

By Peter Wilby

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By Tom Gatti, Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Michael Prodger and Philippa Nuttall

After her infamous 11-day disappearance in 1926, the author retreated from public view. Lucy Worsley’s new biography claims to solve…

By Anna Leszkiewicz

The New Statesman’s selection of essential recent releases.

By New Statesman

A new collection of autobiographical prose reveals the turbulent inner life of the celebrated poet Robert Lowell.

By Jeremy Noel-Tod