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Discover the best contemporary literature with the New Statesman’s expert reviews. From debut novels to short stories and literary veterans, get inspired here.
John le Carré’s aimless final novel
Silverview is a disappointing coda to his Cold War masterpieces.
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In her new novel, Sally Rooney looks her critics in the eye
Beautiful World, Where Are You despairs at the shallowness of fiction – and then embraces it.
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Nadine Dorries’ book The Four Streets is a bad novel, riddled with Shamrockese
After her remarkable flights from fact in her statements on abortion, it’s disappointing to find that Dorries is just not…
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