DH Lawrence and the superiority of fiction
The Goldsmiths Prize Lecture on 100 years of the writer’s seminal essay “Why the Novel Matters”
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Jane Austen and me
On the 250th anniversary of her birth, the great Regency era novelist still offers perceptive lessons in life
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Reluctant Cheats: a story by Anton Chekhov
In this short story, appearing in English for the first time, New Year’s party guests battle against time
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Recovering the lost history of Gaza
Decades of conflict and displacement have obliterated the history of one of the world’s oldest human settlements
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Photo essay: George Orwell’s late sanctuary
Craig Easton’s An Extremely Un-get-atable Place depicts the remote Scottish house where Orwell spent much of his final years
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For the chop: an elegy to London’s Smithfield meat market
Soon, there will be no men left to whizz past you with shopping trolleys full of uncooked ribs
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The secret world of joke writers
I can make you funny – but at whose cost?
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The power of print
Britain’s weeklies have always been more than journalism – they are a battleground of ideas
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How the far right co-opted the cross
US-style Christian nationalism is slowly infiltrating Britain. But faith is about much more than restricting citizenship
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Laboozer: the definitive Labour pub crawl
A guide to the haunts that built Britain, pint by pint
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Salman Rushdie’s uprooted people
From meeting EM Forster to being called “the Muslim James Joyce”, India’s greatest novelist speaks about his long and ever-migrating…
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Keir Starmer, the tragic matador
British politics is a test of individuals’ instincts more than a contest between ideologies
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I was wrong about Broken Britain
The country can feel divided and lost, but there’s always another side to the story
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Keir Starmer must control the conversation
How can this inoffensive man have become so viscerally loathed?
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My degrading, yet hopeful, journey from Gaza to Britain
“Refugee OK to board” is written on my plane ticket. Cold. Sharp. Humiliating
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We need European leaders who can stand up to Trump
His America has given up on our continent – so it’s time to stop appeasing the Maga regime
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Letter of the week: No realistic alternative
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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Reform fears Zack Polanski
My final dose of gossip from around Westminster
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Van Gogh belongs in TK Maxx
Also this week: listening to music like a teenager, and my mortarboard vs the menopause
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A time for healing
This Christmas, it’s apparent just how much things have changed – and must change still
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