The New Statesman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century
Jean-Luc GodardThe New StatesmanJean-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
Hardcover, 2000
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Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
Anna PolitkovskayaThe New Statesman"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
Paperback, 2007
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Anna PolitkovskayaThe New StatesmanIt is both sobering and instructive to read her account of the horrors of the Second Chechen War between 1999 and 2009, carried out on Putin’s orders, given the subsequent invasion of Ukraine. A prophetic account of what was to come.
Paperback, 2007
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria RemarqueThe New Statesman“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
Paperback, Mass Market, 1987
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The Hidden Company That Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips
James B. NardiThe New StatesmanBook 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
Hardcover, 2023
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A Little Life
Hanya YanagiharaThe New StatesmanTo Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara, the bestselling author of A Little Life, is a novel that is less than the sum of its parts, writes @ellen_cph. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2022/01/hanya-yanagiharas-to-paradise-is-an-unconvincing-redesigning-of-america
Paperback, 2016
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Eliot After the Waste Land
Robert CrawfordThe New StatesmanBook 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
Paperback, 2023
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Kick the Latch
Kathryn ScanlanThe New StatesmanKathryn 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
Paperback, 2022
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The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--The Truth and the Turmoil
Tina BrownThe New StatesmanThe 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
Paperback, 2023
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
Peter PomerantsevThe New StatesmanThis 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.
Paperback, 2015
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