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Pippa Bailey is assistant editor and writer at the New Statesman.
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The race for Lambeth Palace
Can the next archbishop of Canterbury unite a divided Church?
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Nick Cave’s Wild God tour: a transcendental experience
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Russell Brand’s weird Christian comeback
A cynic might say that his conversion is not really a conversion at all.
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From Lauren Elkin to Elizabeth Strout: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Immaculate Forms by Helen King and Augustus the Strong by Tim Blanning.
By Pippa Bailey, George Monaghan, Michael Prodger and Finn McRedmond
How Green Day’s American Idiot pitted punk against George W Bush
Twenty years ago, a trio of Calfornian stoners released a polemic against Republican America that politicised a generation.
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I’m back on my bike – and I have plenty to say to my fellow road users
Cycling without headphones has made it clear how not under-my-breath my under-my-breath commentary really is.
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Bella Mackie’s champagne satires
In the novelist’s bestselling whodunnits, her own North London set are just as awful as the callous mega-rich.
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From Rachel Kushner to Mark Rowlands: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Stone Circles by Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings and The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective…
By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey and Megan Gibson
A new flat and a new joint life – the dream is no longer a dream
I pled with the universe, God, and any other higher powers I could think of. Finally, M— and I…
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From Robert Bartlett to Donal Ryan: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Sing Like Fish by Amorina Kingdon and Tracks on the Ocean by Sara Caputo.