
From the war in Ukraine to the life of Roger Deakin: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Anna Metcalfe’s Chrysalis and Octavia Bright’s This Ragged Grace.
ByRead all the latest reviews from New Statesman writers of biographies and memoirs.
Also featuring Anna Metcalfe’s Chrysalis and Octavia Bright’s This Ragged Grace.
ByThe writer has become a national treasure, moral arbiter and begetter of biographies: do we need a new one?
ByJoanna Biggs’ A Life of One’s Own looks to the letters and journals of literary women for guidance. Can they…
ByMen at War, Luke Turner’s tender account of servicemen’s transgressive private lives, transforms our understanding of the Second World War.
ByBrilliant and eccentric, the Oxford philosopher spent his career grappling with fundamental moral questions.
ByAlso featuring Eve by Claire Horn and A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
ByIn her work, the novelist developed a radical philosophy of relationships. In her life, she put it into practice.
ByA new biography shows how he began life as a revolutionary and ended it hosting the Queen Mother.
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