Cultural Capital

The author of Time Traveller's Wife speaks to Hayley Campbell about her new illustrated novel, Raven Girl.

Alex Hern finds that sometimes it's better to let someone else illustrate your words.

Phil Hartup hated the critically acclaimed blockbuster. And he thinks you should too.

Our cultural picks for the week ahead.

Thirty years on from the publication of Roald Dahl's The Witches, Jemma Crew looks back to her childhood reading and recalls how the author reimagined the reality of adulthood for a whole generation of children.

After Thatcher, political artists need to look harder.

Penguin-style biographies for the twenty listed writers with essays, reviews and free fiction.

Reviewed: Bad Machinery, by John Allison.

Our cultural picks for the week ahead.

The novelist gives a rare interview to Soumya Bhattacharya for the New Statesman Centenary Issue.

The British Council's new exhibition has revealed the top 10 English words that originated overseas.

Hi-tech and full of trickery, but can the music survive?

In praise of John Boorman's "Point Blank".

British Sea Power's Yan speaks to the New Statesman about music, politics and Grand Designs Australia.