The New Statesman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Jean-Luc Godard has died at the age of 91. There is no doubt that postwar cinema has lost one of its most irascible, penetrating and radical architects, writes Ryan Gilbey. https://t.co/nbxzHrG7Bg

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"Putin’s Russia: The Definitive Account of Putin’s Rise to Power by Anna Politkovskaya - It is both sobering and instructive to read her account of the horrors of the Second Chechen War" https://t.co/NDnXoTIJC4

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“This film swaps the darkness and brutality of DH Lawrence’s novel for tender scenes of dancing in the rain.” @tomowolade reviews Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. https://t.co/O5CndI7uR0

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Reviewed in short: Another World is Possible by Geoff Mulgan is a manifesto for creativity and for thinking big, writes @RMCunliffe. https://t.co/TYZPWlEHLU

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“Edward Berger’s rendition of Remarque’s classic work of pacifist literature is monumental and visceral, immersing audiences in the mud, rain and blood of the trenches.” @jeremycliffe on All Quiet on the Western Front. https://t.co/L9iHeP2pP7

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Book of the Day: Mark Cocker reviews James B Nardi's, The Hidden Company That Trees Keep. “Their complex web of interactions defies a facile understanding of how all these lives are intertwined.” https://t.co/Aso79fHOFz

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Book of the Day: “TS Eliot is hard to love, in this account: though, of course, we are never asked to love him.” @EricaWgnr reviews Eliot: After the Waste Land by Robert Crawford. https://t.co/EPvyyip6ye

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Kathryn Scanlan’s novel Kick the Latch, based on interviews with an American horse trainer, is a precise and unromantic portrait of the racetrack world, writes @ellen_cph. https://t.co/lI9U9nuOsK

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The Palace Papers by Tina Brown centres not so much on the Queen (“Her Maj”) but on members of the wider royal family. It is gloriously irreverent, racily written and often very funny. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2022/04/a-royal-history-of-scandals?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1651072243-1

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This remains one of the best (and most beautifully written) books on Putin and modern Russia in recent years…It ably gives a sense of what has and is being lost.