Gavin Jacobson

Gavin Jacobson is ideas editor at the New Statesman.

How the world turned global

Jonathan Sperber’s The Age of Interconnection surveys the second half of the 20th century but fails to explain the ideas that shaped it.

By Gavin Jacobson

By Gavin Jacobson

By Gavin Jacobson, Michael Prodger, Ellen Peirson-Hagger and India Bourke

By Michael Prodger, Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Gavin Jacobson and Pippa Bailey

By Gavin Jacobson and Adrian Bradley

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Budapest by Sebestyen, Hell’s Half Acre by Jonusas, Mother’s Boy by Jacobson and Hourglass by Goddard.

By Alix Kroeger, Gavin Jacobson, Michael Prodger and Pippa Bailey

The fantasy novelist and left activist on why Marx’s Communist Manifesto speaks to the crisis-ridden politics of the present.

By Gavin Jacobson

On Agoraphobia by Caveney, España: A Brief History of Spain by Tremlett, Bold Ventures by Van den Broeck and…

By Sophie McBain, Jeremy Cliffe, Michael Prodger and Gavin Jacobson

The philosopher and Nobel Prize winner on identity, decolonisation and how to change the world.

By Gavin Jacobson

The Shame Machine by O'Neil, The Trouble With Happiness and Other Stories by Ditlevsen, Here Again Now by Nzelu…

By Sarah Manavis, Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Katherine Cowles and Gavin Jacobson

Liz Truss’s comments on Ukraine have served to remind us of a long and radical tradition of militant solidarity.

By Gavin Jacobson

Silverview is a disappointing coda to his Cold War masterpieces.

By Gavin Jacobson

Blood Legacy by Renton, Inflamed by Marya and Patel, The Island of Missing Trees by Shafak and Crying in H Mart by…

By Michael Prodger, Gavin Jacobson, Christiana Bishop and Ellen Peirson-Hagger