The secret world of Mick Herron
How the author of Slow Horses and Bad Actors became the foremost living spy novelist in the English language.
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Against the Bolaño industry
In continuing to ransack Roberto Bolaño’s sketchy drafts, his estate has reached a new, degrading low.
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Ten years of Swimming Home
A decade on, the author returns to her Booker Prize-nominated novel, and finds conflict and mortal danger among the waves.
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The best new books of 2022 so far
The New Statesman’s selection of good reads for this spring.
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Ali Smith, our thoroughly modern modernist
In her new novel Companion Piece, Smith turns the legacy of Joyce and Woolf into vital fiction for the 21st…
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The New Statesman’s best books of 2021
The year's essential reading in 20 titles.
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