Tom Gatti
@Tom_Gatti
Executive editor, culture, books, ideas & print, New Statesman. Editor, Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them (Bloomsbury) https://t.co/aihmqoAyKR
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http://www.newstatesman.com/culture 30-10-2011 19:33:02
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“I have a very old-fashioned view, which is that the defence of free expression begins at the point at which somebody says something you don’t like. It’s a very simple thing, but it’s being forgotten.”
Salman Rushdie talks to Erica Wagner
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📚 This week’s Reviewed In Short
• Pippa Bailey on Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis
• Michael Prodger on Ross King’s Shortest History of Italy
• Anoosh Chakelian on Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears’ England
• Tom Gatti on Sinéad Gleeson’s Hagstone
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“In the process of writing this profoundly life-affirming memoir, it is clear that Rushdie has found his own peace. For the rest of us, it should have the opposite effect. It should shake us from our complacencies.”
Nicola Sturgeon on Salman Rushdie
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The NS Podcast Election Special: join Anoosh Chakelian Freddie Hayward, Ben Walker plus special guest Grace Blakeley for a live recording of our award-winning podcast at Cambridge Literary Festival on 20 April.
For 20% off tickets use the code NSDIGITAL24
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The FCO “is nothing short of a celebration of the British empire at its most powerful and racist”. Sathnam Sanghera newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…
“A midwife appeared with some information they’d printed off. As I read it, I sobbed. I was 35 years old and thought my life was over.”
A personal, powerful, essential long read by Hannah Barnes on birth trauma – often dismissed, almost always devastating
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The triumph of Wishful Verbiage, in which aspiration trumps accuracy... by Armando Iannucci
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The review of my memoir, A Very Private School, from the current The New Statesman is by former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion - he suffered at the same school, a decade or so earlier than my classmates and I: newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
“This is the great triumph of Carrie, that King somehow knew about all the loathsome ways the anger of a teenage girl can warp and protrude.”
– Megan Nolan on Stephen King
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The The New Statesman Easter Special is here! Feat:
🩸Megan Nolan on Carrie
🗣️ Armando Iannucci on “wishful verbiage”
🏫 Andrew Motion on boarding school
💀 Anjana Ahuja on Immortality Inc
🎶 Ian Bostridge on Bach
🐦⬛ Helen Macdonald on the dawn chorus
+ much more
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Excellent reporting on the RSL row from Ellen Peirson-Hagger
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Brilliant piece by Oliver Eagleton on Jonathan White's 'In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea' newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
Fascinating by Anoosh Chakelian on how ITV News rebooted itself
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“This cohort, born between 1991 and 1999, came of age during a period of technological revolution, economic collapse and political resistance.”
Essential piece by Gary Younge on politics & UK rap, via Aniefiok 'Neef' Ekpoudom’s Where We Come From
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📔ALPHABETICAL DIARIES by Sheila Heti publishes today!📔 ‘Exhilarating: both intimate and withholding, repetitive and generative, undeniably self-centred and yet moving beyond the self.’ — anna leszkiewicz. Read an excerpt on our website: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/alphabet…