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Will a tattoo ever hang in the Louvre?

Meet the unconventional art historians trying to discover what it means for an image to be marked on the body. Luisa, a 40-year-old nanny, photographed by Lina Bertucci. You smell room G34B before…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4903 words)

Danse Macabre

Sergei Yurevich Filin, a man of early middle age and improbable beauty, sat behind the wheel of his car on a winter night driving toward home. It was 10 degrees Fahrenheit in the center of Moscow, a…
PUBLISHED: March 18, 2013
LENGTH: 43 minutes (10847 words)
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In love with a death row dandy

What motivates a woman to marry a convicted killer and rapist? Julie Bindel finds uncomfortable race and class dynamics at play in the visiting rooms of US jails. The death chamber at the Southern…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3483 words)

How the Midwest was won

The US car industry went into a tailspin in 2008 just as Barack Obama was preparing to take office. His prompt action to save it — and Mitt Romney’s callous counter-proposals —…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3534 words)

The unquiet mind of Hilary Mantel

A portrait of the author of the Booker-winning Wolf Hall. She talks to Sophie Elmhirst about memory, class, Bring Up the Bodies and the unsettled writer’s life. Hilary Mantel. Portrait by…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5549 words)

Ink-stained assassins

LENGTH: 24 minutes (6021 words)

Slavoj Žižek: The politics of Batman

From the repression of unruly citizens to the celebration of the “good capitalist”, The Dark Knight Rises reflects our age of anxiety. Fear city: the director Christopher Nolan's latest…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3665 words)

The A-Z of Iran: part 1

The New Statesman’s A-Z guide to the Islamic Republic of Iran — a complex nation’s rich history, culture, economy and politics. A is for Ahmadinejad He is the man most associated…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5949 words)

Alan Rusbridger: the quiet evangelist

Alan Rusbridger can claim to be the Guardian’s greatest editor. But, asks Peter Wilby, will he also be its last? Alan Rusbriger, editor of the Guardian. Photo: Muir Vidler/New Statesman These…
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6474 words)
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