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Cultural Capital

Reflections on books and the arts from the New Statesman culture desk

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New Statesman
By - 21 June 16:31

Our cultural picks for the week ahead.

New Statesman
By Charlotte Simmonds - 20 June 15:47

A new exhibition captures the trauma of those forced to flee to survive.

Sarah Silverman.
By Sarah Fisch - 19 June 11:00

On how I went to a all-female comedy night raising funds for women's charities - and it was awkward, but needn't have been.

New Statesman
By Austin Walker - 19 June 9:34

Race in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Boards of Canada.
By Joseph Stannard - 18 June 16:52

On listening to the Scottish duo's new album "Tomorrow's Harvest".

New Statesman
By Critic - 17 June 15:18

The critics' verdicts on Rachel Kushner, Iain Banks and Sylvain Tesson.

Asunder.
By Juliet Jacques - 17 June 14:45

Asunder communicates its ideas, and their supporting cultural references, subtly and efficiently.

A young boy reading a book.
By Jonathan Emmett - 17 June 9:43

All thirteen judges on this year's Greenaway and Carnegie Medal panel are women. Last year there was only one man. Although there are plenty of men writing and illustrating picture books, the gatekeepers in the world of picture books are overwhelmingly female. If the full range of boys' tastes aren't represented, how can we expect them to take an interest?

Rebecca Ferguson as Elizabeth Woodville in the BBC's "The White Queen"
By Amy Licence - 17 June 9:22

The BBC's new Sunday night drama set in the Wars of the Roses might not quite tick all historical boxes, but it's likely to become required Sunday night viewing.

Tinkerbell.
By Alex Hern - 16 June 19:53

Reviewed: Peter Pan by Régis Loisel.

New Statesman
By - 14 June 11:30

Our cultural picks for the week ahead.

New Statesman
By Tom Humberstone - 14 June 8:56

Tom Humberstone's weekly observational comic for the New Statesman.

New Statesman
By Agatha Elliott - 13 June 14:34

I’m only seventeen. The continued popularity of Shakespearean adaptations is a great thing for young people.

A plate from Gray's Anatomy. Photograph: Getty Images
By Hayley Campbell - 12 June 15:57

Hayley Campbell reviews Gerald Shea's Song Without Words.

Photograph: Getty Images
By Laura Parker - 11 June 15:01

New Halo, new MGS, new Dark Souls… so why did the Xbox One launch feel so empty?

Principal dancers Evgeny Ivanchenko and Ekaterina Kondaurova try out the 3D spec
By Caroline Crampton - 11 June 11:19

Watching Swan Lake through 3D glasses might feel strange at first, but the Mariinsky Theatre's live 3D broadcast from St Petersburg provides an affordable way to go to the ballet in Russia.

New Statesman
By Amy Licence - 11 June 9:48

Dead by the age of 28, Anne Neville didn’t leave much of a paper trail. Who was this woman who stood so close to the king, yet seems so distant today?

New Statesman
By Critic - 10 June 15:50

The critics' verdicts on Stephen King, Paul Morley and Kristine Barnett.

Iain Banks books.
By Chris D Allen - 10 June 13:01

Friends, readers and fellow-writers remember a Scottish literary great.

A still from Nothingcanpossiblygowrong.com
By Cara Ellison - 07 June 17:36

A graphic novel about high school angst and killer robots? Hand it over, says Cara Ellison.

New Statesman
By Charlotte Simmonds - 07 June 13:59

As world leaders prepare to meet for the global summit, activist artist Peter Kennard creates readily sharable ‘posters for protest’.

New Statesman
By Tom Humberstone - 07 June 9:45

Tom Humberstone's weekly observational comic.

Afghanistan desert. Photo: Getty
By Chris D Allen - 06 June 16:02

Nick Bryant's memoir recalls the dangers and delights of life as a foreign correspondent.

Burt Bacharach.
By George Chesterton - 05 June 9:00

Burt Bacharach’s songs have an inconvenient habit of catching even the most committed cynic unawares and leaving them – about three minutes later – blubbing like the mother of the bride. How does he do it?

Michael Landy's sculptures at the National Gallery.
By Philip Maughan - 04 June 9:00

When he was made associate artist at the National Gallery in 2009, Michael Landy tried his best to get to know the gallery's collection. He kept coming back to the same image: St Catherine and her wheel. In a new exhibition of collages, sketches and larger-than-life sculptures, Landy has brought Renaissance depictions of the saints to life.

Portrait of W G Sebald.
By Isabel Sutton - 04 June 9:00

Radio producer and journalist Isabel Sutton travelled to Germany to talk about W G Sebald with his old friend and fellow academic Professor Rüdiger Görner. She meets him in the same hotel bar where he and Sebald had lunched together many years before.

New Statesman
By - 03 June 16:35

From Laurie Penny on protest to Helen Lewis on videogames, via Daniel Trilling on the far right, join NS staff and contributors at the North London festival.

Matt Smith's Doctor was by turns by turns stern and childlike. Photo: Getty
By Tom Phillips - 03 June 10:54

A young Doctor with old man's eyes, he whirligigged around the screen like a spider playing Twister against itself. But Matt Smith’s legacy suffers from the fact that something went awry in the writing of the last series of Doctor Who.

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