Poetry’s debt to birdsong
The creatures of the air have for centuries inspired some of our finest writing, and they still do
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Letter of the week: The great blame game
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Can Virgin Island heal the nation’s incels?
This is a refreshingly positive piece of reality TV
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Does Virginia Woolf need updating?
The patriarchal world of Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day has been rewritten for our enlightened times
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Ann Patchett’s broken families
In Patchett’s world, even the well-adjusted have hidden tales to tell
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PCOS to PMOS: can doctors finally understand the syndrome?
Once thought of primarily as a reproductive issue, PMOS is properly understood as metabolic ill-health
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Shakespeare’s Adonis is out of his depth
The sustaining joke of Venus and Adonis is the comedy of its wonderful articulacy
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A modern Canterbury tale
What has become of Chaucer’s pilgrimage?
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Thank God for George Michael
Sathnam Sanghera’s biography is the first serious reckoning with Michael’s life and music
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Whose national character is it anyway?
The zeitgeist is hard to diagnose – but it has a powerful historical force
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Beer and Sandwiches: At the Last Light in Margate
This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to letters@newstatesman.co.uk
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Inside the great deprofessionalisation
AI is taking the humanity out of our jobs
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A night with the Tartan Army at Scotland’s biggest fan zone
Safeguarding art at the Tate, and lamenting my daughter’s triumph
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Chris Philp wants another go at fixing immigration
Money and logic be damned
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David Hockney was as serious as he was fun
Behind the uncomplicated joy was an artist who always pushed boundaries
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Elon Musk is the bastard heir of liberal capitalism
The richest man in history spends his days talking about racial grievances
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OnlyFans, a Great British export
A new documentary reveals the vice our economy is built upon
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Olivia Rodrigo is sick of love
The American singer’s latest album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love is her best yet
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John Healey on Labour, loyalty and leadership speculation
The Defence Secretary on Iran and leadership ambitions
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There is a foul panorama of violence blaring from our screens
It is a radicalising, deforming vision of a world which appears on the edge
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