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104-548: The New Statesman (known from 1931 to 1964 as the New Statesman and Nation ) is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society , such as George Bernard Shaw , who was a founding director. The longest-serving editor

208-454: A libel lawsuit that Greene lost, but he was ultimately vindicated in the 1990s when the former mayor of Nice, Jacques Médecin , was imprisoned for corruption and associated crimes. In 1984, in celebration of his 80th birthday, the brewery which Greene's great-grandfather founded in 1799 made a special edition of its St. Edmund's Ale for him, with a special label in his honour. Commenting on turning 80, Greene said, "The big advantage ...

312-628: A second-class degree in history. After leaving Oxford, Greene worked as a private tutor and then turned to journalism; first on the Nottingham Journal , and then as a sub-editor on The Times . While he was still at Oxford, he had started corresponding with Vivien Dayrell-Browning , who had written to him to correct him on a point of Catholic doctrine. Greene was an agnostic, but when he later began to think about marrying Vivien, it occurred to him that, as he puts it in his autobiography A Sort of Life , he "ought at least to learn

416-612: A "Catholic agnostic". Beginning in 1946, Greene had an affair with Catherine Walston , the wife of Harry Walston , a wealthy farmer and future life peer . That relationship is generally thought to have informed the writing of The End of the Affair , published in 1951, when the relationship came to an end. Greene left his family in 1947, but Vivien refused to grant him a divorce, in accordance with Catholic teaching, and they remained married until Greene's death in 1991. Greene lived with manic depression ( bipolar disorder ). He had

520-650: A "Catholic agnostic". He died in 1991, aged 86, of leukemia , and was buried in Corseaux cemetery in Switzerland . William Golding called Greene "the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety". Henry Graham Greene was born in 1904 in St John's House, a boarding house of Berkhamsted School , Hertfordshire, where his father was house master. He was the fourth of six children; his younger brother, Hugh , became Director-General of

624-474: A 186-page centenary special in April 2013, the largest single issue in its history. It also published two special editions (250 and 150 pages), showcasing 100 years of the best and boldest journalism from its archives. In the following year it expanded its web presence by establishing two new websites: May2015.com, a polling data site focused on the 2015 general election , and CityMetric, a cities magazine site under

728-525: A 50% interest in the magazine to businessman Mike Danson, and the remainder a year later. The appointment of the new editor Jason Cowley was announced on 16 May 2008, but he did not take up the job until the end of September 2008. In January 2009, the magazine refused to recognise the National Union of Journalists , the trade union to which almost all of its journalists belonged, though further discussions were promised but never materialised. Cowley

832-557: A columnist, allegedly because of the latter's support for Margaret Thatcher ; Hugh Stephenson (1982–86), under whom it took a strong position again for unilateral nuclear disarmament ; John Lloyd (1986–87), who swung the paper's politics back to the centre; Stuart Weir (1987–90), under whose editorship the Statesman founded the Charter 88 constitutional reform pressure group; and Steve Platt (1990–96). The Statesman acquired

936-532: A commemorative edition. In 2009, The Strand Magazine began to publish in serial form a newly discovered Greene novel titled The Empty Chair . The manuscript was written in longhand when Greene was 22 and newly converted to Catholicism. Greene's literary style was described by Evelyn Waugh in Commonweal as "not a specifically literary style at all. The words are functional, devoid of sensuous attraction, of ancestry, and of independent life". Commenting on

1040-692: A contempt for all arguments except that of superior force." The magazine also condemned the Soviet Invasion of Finland . Circulation grew enormously under Martin's editorship, reaching 70,000 by the end of the Second World War. This number helped the magazine become a key player in Labour politics. The paper welcomed Labour's 1945 general election victory but took a critical line on the new government's foreign policy. The young Labour MP Richard Crossman , who had become an assistant editor of

1144-417: A contest for parodies of Greene's writing style, he submitted three entries under the names "M. Wilkinson", “N. Wilkinson" and "D.R. Cook". As "M. Wilkinson", he shared the prize (one guinea) with four other authors. He later wrote to the magazine revealing his identity and expressing regret that his other two entries had not won, "because prize money in these days is free of Income Tax." Greene's entry comprised

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1248-636: A contributor to the magazine for twenty years. She wrote in a Mail on Sunday article: " New Statesman fiercely opposed the Iraq war and yet now hands over the reins to someone key in orchestrating that conflict". Campbell responded: "I had no idea she worked for the New Statesman . I don't read the Mail on Sunday . But professing commitment to leftwing values in that rightwing rag lends a somewhat weakened credibility to anything she says." In September 2009,

1352-459: A few. The Nation , describing the many facets of Graham Greene The novels often portray the dramatic struggles of the individual soul from a Catholic perspective. Greene was criticised for certain tendencies in an unorthodox direction—in the world, sin is omnipresent to the degree that the vigilant struggle to avoid sinful conduct is doomed to failure, hence not central to holiness. His friend and fellow Catholic Evelyn Waugh attacked that as

1456-464: A good operating profit, though circulation only remained steady at around 23,000. John Kampfner , Wilby's political editor, succeeded him as editor in May 2005 following considerable internal lobbying. Under Kampfner's editorship, a relaunch in 2006 initially saw headline circulation climb to more than 30,000. However, over 5,000 of these were apparently monitored free copies, and Kampfner failed to maintain

1560-654: A history of depression, which had a profound effect on his writing and personal life. In a letter to his wife, Vivien, he told her that he had "a character profoundly antagonistic to ordinary domestic life," and that "unfortunately, the disease is also one's material". Greene left Britain in 1966, moving to Antibes , to be close to Yvonne Cloetta, whom he had known since 1959, a relationship that endured until his death. In 1973, he had an uncredited cameo appearance as an insurance company representative in François Truffaut 's film Day for Night . In 1981, Greene

1664-545: A novel, even though, as a work decidedly comic in tone, it appeared closer to his last two entertainments, Loser Takes All and Our Man in Havana , than to any of the novels. Greene, they speculated, seemed to have dropped the category of entertainment. This was soon confirmed. In the Collected Edition of Greene's works published in 22 volumes between 1970 and 1982, the distinction between novels and entertainments

1768-674: A number of leper colonies in the Congo Basin and in what were then the British Cameroons . During this trip in late February and early March 1959, Greene met several times with Andrée de Jongh , a leader in the Belgian resistance during WWII, who famously established an escape route to Gibraltar through the Pyrenees for downed allied airmen. In 1957, just months after Fidel Castro began his final revolutionary assault on

1872-475: A painting he had done, which hung in the living room of the French house where the author spent the last years of his life. Greene did later voice doubts about Castro, telling a French interviewer in 1983, "I admire him for his courage and his efficiency, but I question his authoritarianism," adding: "All successful revolutions, however idealistic, probably betray themselves in time." Between 1944 and 1948, Greene

1976-644: A revival of the Quietist heresy. This aspect of his work also was criticised by the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar , as giving sin a mystique. Greene responded that constructing a vision of pure faith and goodness in the novel was beyond his talents. Praise of Greene from an orthodox Catholic point of view by Edward Short is in Crisis Magazine , and a mainstream Catholic critique is presented by Joseph Pearce . Catholicism's prominence decreased in his later writings. The supernatural realities that haunted

2080-408: A similar service to print news magazines, but their stories are presented as short television documentaries rather than written articles; in contrast to a daily newscast, news magazines allow more in-depth coverage of specific topics, including current affairs , investigative journalism (including hidden camera investigations), major interviews, and human-interest stories. The BBC 's Panorama

2184-410: A world that is paper-thin". Only in recovering the religious element, the awareness of the drama of the struggle in the soul that carries the permanent consequence of salvation or damnation, and of the ultimate metaphysical realities of good and evil, sin and divine grace , could the novel recover its dramatic power. Suffering and unhappiness are omnipresent in the world Greene depicts; and Catholicism

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2288-502: Is held by the John J. Burns Library, at Boston College . Part of Greene's reputation as a novelist is for weaving the characters he met and the places where he lived into the fabric of his novels. Greene first left Europe at 30 years of age in 1935 on a trip to Liberia that produced the travel book Journey Without Maps . His 1938 trip to Mexico to see the effects of the government's campaign of forced anti-Catholic secularisation

2392-407: Is no longer maintained. All are novels. Greene was one of the more "cinematic" of twentieth-century writers; most of his novels and many of his plays and short stories have been adapted for film or television . The Internet Movie Database lists 66 titles between 1934 and 2010 based on Greene material. Some novels were filmed more than once, such as Brighton Rock in 1947 and 2011, The End of

2496-465: Is presented against a background of unvarying human evil, sin, and doubt. V. S. Pritchett praised Greene as the first English novelist since Henry James to present, and grapple with, the reality of evil. Greene concentrated on portraying the characters' internal lives—their mental, emotional, and spiritual depths. His stories are often set in poor, hot and dusty tropical places such as Mexico, West Africa, Vietnam, Cuba, Haiti, and Argentina, which led to

2600-684: Is that at 80 you are more likely these days to beat out encountering your end in a nuclear war," adding, "the other side of the problem is that I really don't want to survive myself [which] has nothing to do with nukes, but with the body hanging around while the mind departs." In 1986, Greene was awarded Britain's Order of Merit . He died of leukaemia in 1991 at the age of 86, and was buried in Corseaux cemetery. Greene originally divided his fiction into two genres: thrillers ( mystery and suspense books), such as The Ministry of Fear , which he described as entertainments, often with notable philosophic edges; and literary works, such as The Power and

2704-641: The Batista regime in Cuba , Greene played a small role in helping the revolutionaries, as a secret courier transporting warm clothing for Castro's rebels hiding in the hills during the Cuban winter. Castro, like Daniel Ortega and Omar Torrijos , was one of several Latin American leaders Greene's friendship with whom has led some commentators to question his commitment to democracy. After one visit Castro gave Greene

2808-638: The Labour Party , Sharp was drawn increasingly to the Asquith Liberals . Lloyd stood in after Sharp's departure until the appointment of Kingsley Martin as editor in 1930 – a position that Martin was to hold for 30 years. In 1931 the New Statesman merged with the Liberal weekly The Nation and Athenaeum and changed its name to the New Statesman and Nation , which it kept until 1964. The chairman of The Nation and Athenaeum ' s board

2912-406: The New Statesman considers itself a "print-digital hybrid" with peak online traffic of over 4 million unique visitors per month, almost a four-fold increase since 2011. This compares to the magazine's overall circulation of 36,591, and paid-for circulation of 34,451 as of January 2021, the highest level for 40 years. At the 2020 British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) awards, editor Jason Cowley

3016-673: The New Statesman uploaded the issue to file-sharing sites such as BitTorrent . As well as writing that week's editorial, Ai Weiwei interviewed the Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng , who fled to the United States after exposing the use of compulsory abortions and sterilisations. The issue was launched on 19 October 2012 at the Lisson Gallery in London, where speakers including artist Anish Kapoor and lawyer Mark Stephens paid tribute to Ai Weiwei. In October 2013

3120-585: The 1950s, but in his final years began to receive the sacraments again from Father Leopoldo Durán, a Spanish priest, who became a friend. In one of his final works, a pamphlet titled J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice (1982), Greene wrote of a legal matter that embroiled him and his extended family in Nice , and declared that organised crime flourished in Nice because the city's upper levels of civic government protected judicial and police corruption. The accusation provoked

3224-552: The 2000s, being largely displaced by the emerging genre of reality television . Some local television stations in the U.S. have produced news magazines, although they have largely been displaced by cheaper programming acquired from the syndication market. An exception is WCVB-TV in Boston, which has continued to produce the nightly news magazine Chronicle since 1982. In Brazil, TV Globo 's news magazine Fantástico has aired on Sunday nights. Historically, it has been one of

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3328-629: The 2012 PPA ( Professional Publishers Association ) Awards. He was also shortlisted for the European Press Prize editing award in January 2013, when the awards committee said: "Cowley has succeeded in revitalising the New Statesman and re-establishing its position as an influential political and cultural weekly. He has given the New Statesman an edge and a relevance to current affairs it hasn’t had for years." The magazine published

3432-482: The 30,000 circulation he had pledged. In February 2008, Audit Bureau Circulation figures showed that circulation had plunged nearly 13% in 2007. Kampfner resigned on 13 February 2008, the day before the ABC figures were made public, reportedly due to conflicts with Robinson over the magazine's marketing budget (which Robinson had apparently slashed in reaction to the fall in circulation). In April 2008, Geoffrey Robinson sold

3536-446: The Affair in 1955 and 1999, and The Quiet American in 1958 and 2002 . The 1936 thriller A Gun for Sale was filmed at least five times under different titles, notably This Gun for Hire in 1942. Greene received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay for Carol Reed 's The Fallen Idol (1948), adapted from his own short story The Basement Room . He also wrote several original screenplays. In 1949, after writing

3640-476: The BBC , and his elder brother, Raymond , an eminent physician and mountaineer. His parents, Charles Henry Greene and Marion Raymond Greene, were first cousins , both members of a large, influential family that included the owners of Greene King Brewery , bankers, and statesmen; his grandmother Jane Wilson was first cousin to Robert Louis Stevenson . Charles Greene was second master at Berkhamsted School, where

3744-481: The Caribbean being eligible (and winners including Chinua Achebe , Wole Soyinka , Shiva Naipaul , Derek Walcott and Buchi Emecheta ). After Johnson's departure in 1970, the Statesman went into a long period of declining circulation under successive editors: Richard Crossman (1970–72), who tried to edit it at the same time as playing a major role in Labour politics; Anthony Howard (1972–78), whose recruits to

3848-486: The Fabian Society. The Fabians previously had supported The New Age but that journal by 1912 had moved away from supporting Fabian politics and issues such as women's suffrage . The first editor of the New Statesman was Clifford Sharp , who remained editor until 1928. Desmond MacCarthy joined the paper in 1913 and became literary editor, recruiting Cyril Connolly to the staff in 1928. J. C. Squire edited

3952-487: The Glory , which he described as novels, on which he thought his literary reputation was to be based. As his career lengthened, both Greene and his readers found the distinction between "entertainments" and "novels" to be less evident. The last book Greene termed an entertainment was Our Man in Havana in 1958. When Travels with My Aunt was published eleven years later, many reviewers noted that Greene had designated it

4056-534: The Glory . The next two books, The Name of Action (1930) and Rumour at Nightfall (1932), were unsuccessful, and he later disowned them. His first true success was Stamboul Train (1932) which was taken on by the Book Society and adapted as the film Orient Express , in 1934. Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Roman Catholic novelist, rather than as a novelist who happened to be Catholic, Catholic religious themes are at

4160-558: The KGB's campaigns. The New Statesman was rescued from near-bankruptcy by a takeover by businessman Philip Jeffrey but in 1996, after prolonged boardroom wrangling over Jeffrey's plans, it was sold to Geoffrey Robinson , the Labour MP and businessman. Following Steve Platt's resignation, Robinson appointed a former editor of The Independent , Ian Hargreaves , on what was at the time an unprecedentedly high salary. Hargreaves fired most of

4264-683: The Labour leadership of Hugh Gaitskell , although Martin never got on personally with Aneurin Bevan , the leader of the anti- Gaitskellite Labour faction. The magazine opposed the Korean War , and an article by J. B. Priestley directly led to the founding of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . There was much less focus on a single political line in the back part of the paper, which was devoted to book reviews and articles on cultural topics. Indeed, with these pages managed by Janet Adam Smith , who

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4368-604: The Soviet Union, Low's Russian Sketchbook . Keynes argued that Martin was "a little too full perhaps of good will" towards Stalin, and that any doubts about Stalin's rule had "been swallowed down if possible". Martin was irritated by Keynes's article but still allowed it to be printed. In a 17 September 1932 editorial, the magazine accused the British Conservative press of misrepresenting the Soviet Union's agricultural policy but added that "the serious nature of

4472-714: The Work and Pensions Secretary to write an article and having interviewed the Foreign Secretary William Hague in the same edition. He also noted that the Labour Party had failed to offer an alternative to what he called "associational socialism". The Statesman promoted the edition on the basis of Williams' alleged attack on the government, whereas Williams himself had ended his article by asking for "a democracy capable of real argument about shared needs and hopes and real generosity". In December 2011

4576-472: The action was settled out of court for a minimal sum, the magazine's legal costs almost led to its closure. In 1994, KGB defector Yuri Shvets said that the KGB utilised the New Statesman to spread disinformation. Shvets said that the KGB had provided disinformation, including forged documents, to the New Statesman journalist Claudia Wright which she used for anti-American and anti-Israel stories in line with

4680-422: The agency. Accordingly, he was posted to Sierra Leone during the Second World War. Kim Philby , who would later be revealed as a Soviet agent, was Greene's supervisor and friend at MI6. Greene resigned from MI6 in 1944. He later wrote an introduction to Philby's 1968 memoir, My Silent War . Greene also corresponded with intelligence officer and spy, John Cairncross , for forty years and that correspondence

4784-507: The award. The magazine's Spotlight series (which publishes specialist business content) also won the Launch of the Year award, with judges describing the supplements as a "great example of monetising a brand without losing its integrity". Following Andrew Marr 's leaving the BBC in 2021, he joined the magazine as chief political commentator. In June 2024, the New Statesman accidentally spread

4888-459: The cleric "on the ground of dogmatic atheism", as Greene's primary difficulty with religion was what he termed the "if" surrounding God's existence. He found, however, that "after a few weeks of serious argument the 'if' was becoming less and less improbable", and Greene converted and was baptised after vigorous arguments initially with the priest in which he defended atheism , or at least the "if" of agnosticism . Late in life, Greene called himself

4992-517: The coining of the expression "Greeneland" to describe such settings. A stranger with no shortage of calling cards: devout Catholic, lifelong adulterer, pulpy hack, canonical novelist; self-destructive, meticulously disciplined, deliriously romantic, bitterly cynical; moral relativist, strict theologian, salon communist, closet monarchist; civilized to a stuffy fault and louche to drugged-out distraction, anti-imperialist crusader and postcolonial parasite, self-excoriating and self-aggrandizing, to name just

5096-824: The conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. The Power and the Glory won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and The Heart of the Matter won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black . Greene was awarded the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize . Several of his stories have been filmed, some more than once, and he collaborated with filmmaker Carol Reed on The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949). He converted to Catholicism in 1926 after meeting his future wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning . Later in life he took to calling himself

5200-527: The criticism. In 1954, Greene travelled to Haiti , where The Comedians (1966) is set, and which was then under the rule of dictator François Duvalier , known as "Papa Doc", frequently staying at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince . He visited Haiti again in the late 1950s. As inspiration for his novel A Burnt-Out Case (1960), Greene spent time travelling around Africa visiting

5304-461: The disaster he inflicted on the Vietnamese. In Ways of Escape , reflecting on his Mexican trip, he complained that Mexico's government was insufficiently left-wing compared with Cuba's. In Greene's opinion, "Conservatism and Catholicism should be ... impossible bedfellows". In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. In April 1949, when the New Statesman held

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5408-530: The earlier work declined and were replaced by a humanistic perspective, a change reflected in his public criticism of orthodox Catholic teaching. In his later years, Greene was a strong critic of American imperialism and sympathised with the Cuban leader Fidel Castro , whom he had met. Years before the Vietnam War , he prophetically attacked the idealistic but arrogant beliefs of The Quiet American , whose certainty in his own virtue kept him from seeing

5512-428: The false report that Noam Chomsky had died. In March 2009, the magazine had its first guest editor, Alastair Campbell , the former head of communications for Tony Blair. Campbell chose to feature his partner Fiona Millar , Tony Blair (in an article "Why we must all do God"), football manager Alex Ferguson , and Sarah Brown , the wife of Prime Minister Gordon Brown . This editorship was condemned by Suzanne Moore ,

5616-473: The first two paragraphs of a novel, apparently set in Italy, The Stranger's Hand: An Entertainment . Greene's friend Mario Soldati , a Piedmontese novelist and film director, believed it had the makings of a suspense film about Yugoslav spies in postwar Venice . Upon Soldati's prompting, Greene continued writing the story as the basis for a film script. Apparently he lost interest in the project, leaving it as

5720-460: The food situation is no secret and no invention". The magazine defended the Soviet collectivisation policy, but also said the policy had "proceeded far too quickly and lost the cooperation of farmers". In 1934 it ran an interview with Stalin by H. G. Wells . Although sympathetic to aspects of the Soviet Union, he disagreed with Stalin on several issues. The debate resulted in several more articles in

5824-474: The headmaster was Dr Thomas Fry , who was married to Charles' cousin. Another cousin was the right-wing pacifist Ben Greene , whose politics led to his internment during World War II . In his childhood, Greene spent his summers at Harston House , the Cambridgeshire home of his uncle, Sir Graham Greene . In Greene's description of his childhood, he describes his learning to read there: "It

5928-482: The ideas for the novel often considered his masterpiece, The Power and the Glory . By the 1950s, Greene had become known as one of the finest writers of his generation. As his career lengthened, both Greene and his readers found the distinction between his 'entertainments' and novels increasingly problematic. The last book Greene termed an entertainment was Our Man in Havana in 1958. Greene also wrote short stories and plays, which were well received, although he

6032-514: The journalist Claud Cockburn and the historian Peter Quennell . Greene contributed several stories to the school magazine, one of which was published by a London evening newspaper in January 1921. He attended Balliol College, Oxford , to study history. During 1922 Greene was for a short time a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain , and sought an invitation to the new Soviet Union , of which nothing came. In 1925, while he

6136-566: The lean prose and its readability, Richard Jones wrote in the Virginia Quarterly Review that "nothing deflects Greene from the main business of holding the reader's attention". Greene's novels often have religious themes at their centre. In his literary criticism he attacked the modernist writers Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster for having lost the religious sense which, he argued, resulted in dull, superficial characters, who "wandered about like cardboard symbols through

6240-464: The left-wingers on the staff and turned the Statesman into a strong supporter of Tony Blair 's leadership of the Labour Party. Hargreaves was succeeded by Peter Wilby , also from the Independent stable, who had previously been the Statesman ′ s books editor, in 1998. Wilby attempted to reposition the paper back "on the left". His stewardship was not without controversy. In 2002, for example,

6344-527: The magazine Night and Day . Greene's 1937 film review of Wee Willie Winkie , for Night and Day —which said that the nine-year-old star, Shirley Temple , displayed "a dubious coquetry" which appealed to "middle-aged men and clergymen"—provoked Twentieth Century Fox successfully to sue for £3,500 plus costs, and Greene left the UK to live in Mexico until after the trial was over. While in Mexico, Greene developed

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6448-433: The magazine before the war, was Martin's chief lieutenant in this period, and the Statesman published Keep Left , the pamphlet written by Crossman, Michael Foot and Ian Mikardo , that most succinctly laid out the Labour left's proposals for a "third force" foreign policy rather than alliance with the United States. During the 1950s, the New Statesman remained a left critic of British foreign and defence policy and of

6552-580: The magazine in 2016, a special edition exploring Britain's relationship with Europe ahead of the EU referendum . Contributors to the issue included the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and Michael Sandel . News magazine Radio news magazines are similar to television news magazines. Unlike radio newscasts, which are typically about five minutes in length, radio news magazines can run from 30 minutes to three hours or more. Television news magazines provide

6656-557: The magazine was guest-edited by Richard Dawkins . The issue included the writer Christopher Hitchens's final interview, conducted by Dawkins in Texas, and pieces by Bill Gates , Sam Harris , Daniel Dennett and Philip Pullman . In October 2012 the magazine was guest-edited by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei and, for the first time, published simultaneously in Mandarin (in digital form) and English. To evade China's internet censors,

6760-405: The magazine was guest-edited by Russell Brand , with contributions from David Lynch , Noel Gallagher , Naomi Klein , Rupert Everett , Amanda Palmer , and Alec Baldwin , as well as an essay by Brand. In October 2014, the magazine was guest-edited by the artist Grayson Perry , whose essay titled "Default Man" was widely discussed. The former British prime minister Gordon Brown guest-edited

6864-463: The magazine was guest-edited by Labour politician Ken Livingstone , the former mayor of London. In October 2010, the magazine was guest-edited by British author and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg . The issue included a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes , "Last letter", describing what happened during the three days leading up to the suicide of his first wife, the poet Sylvia Plath . Its first line is: "What happened that night? Your final night."—and

6968-419: The magazine was jocularly referred to as The Staggers – an example of Oxford "-er" undergraduate slang. The nickname is now used as the title of its rolling politics blog. Circulation was at its highest in the mid-1960s at 93,000. The magazine encountered substantial difficulties in the following decades as readership fell, but it was growing again by the mid-2010s. In 2020, the certified average circulation

7072-519: The magazine when Sharp was on wartime duties during the First World War. In November 1914, three months after the beginning of the war, the New Statesman published a lengthy anti-war supplement by Shaw, "Common Sense About The War", a scathing dissection of its causes, which castigated all nations involved but particularly savaged the British. It sold a phenomenal 75,000 copies by the end of

7176-534: The magazine; in one of them, George Bernard Shaw accused Wells of being disrespectful to Stalin during the interview. In 1938 came Martin's refusal to publish George Orwell 's celebrated dispatches from Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War because they criticised the communists for suppressing the anarchists and the left-wing Workers' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ). "It is an unfortunate fact", Martin wrote to Orwell, "that any hostile criticism of

7280-586: The nature and limits of the beliefs she held". Greene was baptised on 26 February 1926 and they married on 15 October 1927 at St Mary's Church, Hampstead , London. He published his first novel, The Man Within , in 1929; its favourable reception enabled him to work full-time as a novelist. Greene originally divided his fiction into two genres (which he described as "entertainments" and "novels"): thrillers—often with notable philosophic edges—such as The Ministry of Fear ; and literary works—on which he thought his literary reputation would rest—such as The Power and

7384-430: The networks' evening newscasts as their flagship programs at the expense of their news divisions' traditions of hard news. By the late-1990s, Dateline would establish a niche in true crime to set it apart from its competitors—a format that would bolster its popularity, and lead the show to being on as many as five times per-week at its peak. Most of these magazines and their frequent airings would fall out of favor by

7488-495: The novella as "raw material", he wrote the screenplay for a classic film noir , The Third Man , also directed by Reed and featuring Orson Welles . In 1983, The Honorary Consul , published ten years earlier, was released as a film (under the title Beyond the Limit in some territories), starring Michael Caine and Richard Gere . Author and screenwriter Michael Korda contributed a foreword and introduction to this novel in

7592-452: The paper included Christopher Hitchens , Martin Amis and James Fenton (surprisingly, the arch anti-Socialist Auberon Waugh was writing for the Statesman at this time before returning to The Spectator ); Bruce Page (1978–82), who moved the paper towards specialising in investigative journalism, sacking Arthur Marshall , who had been writing for the Statesman on and off since 1935, as

7696-470: The periodical was accused of antisemitism when it published an investigative cover story on the power of the "Zionist lobby" in Britain, under the title "A Kosher Conspiracy?" The cover was illustrated with a gold Star of David resting on a Union Jack . Wilby responded to the criticisms in a subsequent issue. During Wilby's seven-year tenure, the New Statesman moved from making a financial loss to having

7800-576: The poem ends with the moment Hughes is informed of his wife's death. In April 2011, the magazine was guest-edited by human rights activist Jemima Khan . The issue featured a series of exclusives including the actor Hugh Grant 's secret recording of former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan , and a much-commented-on interview with Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg , in which Clegg admitted that he "cries regularly to music" and that his nine-year-old son asked him, "'Why are

7904-517: The present Russian regime is liable to be taken as propaganda against socialism ". Martin also refused to allow any of the magazine's writers to review Leon Trotsky 's anti-Stalinist book The Revolution Betrayed . Martin became more critical of Stalin after the Hitler-Stalin pact , claiming Stalin was "adopting the familiar technique of the Fuhrer", and adding: "Like Hitler, he [Stalin] has

8008-402: The rest of the day. His writing influences included Henry James , Robert Louis Stevenson , H. Rider Haggard , Joseph Conrad , Ford Madox Ford , Marcel Proust , Charles Péguy and John Buchan . Throughout his life, Greene travelled to what he called the world's wild and remote places. In 1941, the travels led to his being recruited into MI6 by his sister, Elisabeth, who worked for

8112-470: The root of much of his writing, especially Brighton Rock , The Power and the Glory , The Heart of the Matter , and The End of the Affair , which have been named "the gold standard" of the Catholic novel. Several works, such as The Confidential Agent , The Quiet American , Our Man in Havana , The Human Factor , and his screenplay for The Third Man , also show Greene's avid interest in

8216-442: The same time, newer newsmagazines—as well as syndicated offerings such as A Current Affair , Hard Copy and Inside Edition —often had a larger focus on tabloid stories (including celebrities such as Michael Jackson , and the O.J. Simpson and Menendez brothers murder cases) rather than the harder journalism associated with 60 Minutes and 20/20 at the time. CNN president Ed Turner argued that these shows had eclipsed

8320-415: The school as a boarder. Bullied and profoundly depressed, he made several suicide attempts, including, as he wrote in his autobiography, by Russian roulette and by taking aspirin before going swimming in the school pool. In 1920, aged 16, in what was a radical step for the time, he was sent for psychoanalysis for six months in London, afterwards returning to school as a day student. School friends included

8424-597: The students angry with you, Papa?'" In June 2011, the Archbishop of Canterbury , Rowan Williams , created a furore as guest editor by claiming that the Coalition government had introduced "radical, long term policies for which no one had voted" and in doing so had created "anxiety and anger" among many in the country. He was accused of being highly partisan, notwithstanding his having invited Iain Duncan Smith ,

8528-552: The tagline, "Urbanism for the social media age" and edited by Jonn Elledge . It was announced in December 2016 that the Weekend Competition, a feature inherited from The Week-end Review , would be discontinued, for reasons of space. The New Statesman took a neutral position in the 2019 general election . It was the first time in the magazine's history it had explicitly chosen not to endorse Labour. As of 2020,

8632-439: The top programs on Brazilian television, although its dominance is no longer as absolute as it was in the past due to competition from variety shows such as SBT 's Programa Silvio Santos , and from Record 's competing news magazine Domingo Espetacular. 5.Este es un ejemplo de News Magazines: https://newsmagazinesbc.com Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene OM CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991)

8736-404: The weekly New Society in 1988 and merged with it, becoming New Statesman and Society for the next eight years, then reverting to the old title, having meanwhile absorbed Marxism Today in 1991. In 1993, the Statesman was sued by Prime Minister John Major after it published an article discussing rumours that Major was having an extramarital affair with a Downing Street caterer. Although

8840-450: The work of famous authors, became one of the most famous parts of the magazine. Most famously, Graham Greene won second prize in a challenge to parody his own work. During the 1930s, Martin's New Statesman moved markedly to the left politically. It became strongly anti- fascist and pacifist , opposing British rearmament. After the 1938 Anschluss , Martin wrote: "Today if Mr. Chamberlain would come forward and tell us that his policy

8944-615: The workings and intrigues of international politics and espionage. In early 1930s Green moved to the left politically. He read left-wing writers like G.D.H. Cole and John Strachey ; in 1933 he joined the Independent Labour Party . This move to the left is reflected in the characters and plot of his fifth novel It's A Battlefield . His later political affiliations and convictions were more ambiguous. He supplemented his novelist's income with freelance journalism, book and film reviews for The Spectator , and co-editing

9048-527: The year and created an international sensation. The New York Times reprinted it as America began its lengthy debate on entering what was then called "the European War". During Sharp's last two years in the post, from around 1926, he was debilitated by chronic alcoholism and the paper was actually edited by his deputy Charles Mostyn Lloyd . Although the Webbs and most Fabians were closely associated with

9152-703: Was Kingsley Martin (1930–1960), and the current editor is Jason Cowley, who assumed the post in 2008. Today, the magazine is a print–digital hybrid. According to its present self-description, it has a liberal and progressive political position. Jason Cowley , the magazine's editor, has described the New Statesman as a publication "of the left, for the left" but also as "a political and literary magazine" with "sceptical" politics. The magazine has recognised and published new writers and critics, as well as encouraging major careers. Its contributors have included John Maynard Keynes , Bertrand Russell , Virginia Woolf , Christopher Hitchens , and Paul Johnson . Historically,

9256-417: Was 36,591. Traffic to the magazine's website that year reached a new high with 27 million page views and four million distinct users. Associated websites have included CityMetric (now defunct), Spotlight and NewStatesman Tech. In 2018, New Statesman America was launched. The New Statesman was founded in 1913 by Sidney and Beatrice Webb with the support of George Bernard Shaw and other prominent members of

9360-413: Was always first and foremost a novelist. His first play, The Living Room , debuted in 1953. Michael Korda , a lifelong friend and later his editor at Simon & Schuster , observed Greene at work: Greene wrote in a small black leather notebook with a black fountain pen and would write approximately 500 words. Korda described this as Graham's daily penance—once he finished he put the notebook away for

9464-473: Was an agnostic , but was baptised into the Catholic faith in 1926 after meeting his future wife Vivien Dayrell-Browning . They were married on 15 October 1927 at St Mary's Church, Hampstead, north London. The Greenes had two children, Lucy Caroline (born 1933) and Francis (born 1936). In his discussions with Father Trollope, the priest to whom he went for instruction in Catholicism , Greene argued with

9568-591: Was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels , and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored

9672-453: Was an undergraduate at Balliol, his first work, a poorly received volume of poetry titled Babbling April , was published. Greene had periodic bouts of depression while at Oxford, and largely kept to himself. Of Greene's time at Oxford, his contemporary Evelyn Waugh noted that: "Graham Greene looked down on us (and perhaps all undergraduates) as childish and ostentatious. He certainly shared in none of our revelry." He graduated in 1925 with

9776-497: Was at Harston I quite suddenly found that I could read—the book was Dixon Brett, Detective . I didn't want anyone to know of my discovery, so I read only in secret, in a remote attic, but my mother must have spotted what I was at all the same, for she gave me Ballantyne's Coral Island for the train journey home—always an interminable journey with the long wait between trains at Bletchley ..." In 1910, Charles Greene succeeded Dr Fry as headmaster of Berkhamsted. Graham also attended

9880-724: Was awarded the Jerusalem Prize , awarded to writers concerned with the freedom of the individual in society. He lived the last years of his life in Vevey , on Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the same town Charlie Chaplin was living in at this time. He visited Chaplin often, and the two were good friends. His book Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party (1980) is based on themes of combined philosophical and geographical influences. He ceased going to mass and confession in

9984-463: Was director at Eyre & Spottiswoode under chairman Douglas Jerrold , in charge of developing its fiction list. Greene created The Century Library series, which was discontinued after he left following a conflict with Jerrold regarding Anthony Powell 's contract. In 1958, Greene was offered the position of chairman by Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre , but declined. He was a director at The Bodley Head from 1957 to 1968 under Max Reinhardt . Greene

10088-524: Was followed in the chair by Paul Johnson , then on the left, under whose editorship the Statesman reached its highest ever circulation. For some, even enemies of Johnson such as Richard Ingrams , this was a strong period for the magazine editorially. From 1964 to 1981, the Statesman was chaired by Jock Campbell , who endowed the "Jock Campbell-New Statesman Award", a prize of £1,000 that was given every three years for 12 years, with writers born in Africa or

10192-488: Was literary editor from 1952 to 1960, the paper was sometimes described as a pantomime horse : its back half was required reading even for many who disagreed with the paper's politics. This tradition would continue into the 1960s with Karl Miller as Smith's replacement. Martin retired in 1960 and was replaced as editor by John Freeman , a politician and journalist who had resigned from the Labour government in 1951 along with Bevan and Harold Wilson . Freeman left in 1965 and

10296-459: Was named Current Affairs and Politics editor of the year for the fourth time, defeating rivals from The Spectator , The Big Issue and Prospect . "In increasingly tribal times, Jason Cowley continues to champion independence of thought and diversity of opinion, challenging his audience and producing a magazine that's imaginative, unpredictable and interesting", the BSME judges said on presenting

10400-549: Was named current affairs editor of the year at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards in 2009, and in 2011 he was named editor of the year in the Newspaper & Current Affairs Magazine Category at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards, while Jon Bernstein, the deputy editor, gained the award for Consumer Website Editor of the Year. Cowley had been shortlisted as Editor of the Year (consumer magazines) in

10504-651: Was one of the earliest examples, premiering in 1953. In the United States , the Big Three networks all currently produce at least one weekly news magazine, including ABC 's 20/20 , CBS 's 60 Minutes , and NBC's Dateline ; the current formats of 20/20 and Dateline focus predominantly on true crime stories. News magazines proliferated on network schedules in the early 1990s, as they had lower production costs in comparison to scripted programs, and could attract equivalent if not larger audiences. At

10608-629: Was paid for by the publishing company Longman , thanks to his friendship with Tom Burns . That voyage produced two books, the nonfiction The Lawless Roads (published as Another Mexico in the US) and the novel The Power and the Glory . In 1953, the Holy Office informed Greene that The Power and the Glory was damaging to the reputation of the priesthood; but later, in a private audience with Greene, Pope Paul VI told him that, although parts of his novels would offend some Catholics, he should ignore

10712-480: Was really one not only of isolation but also of Little Englandism in which the Empire was to be given up because it could not be defended and in which military defence was to be abandoned because war would totally end civilization, we for our part would wholeheartedly support him." The magazine provoked further controversy with its coverage of Joseph Stalin 's Soviet Union . In 1932, Keynes reviewed Martin's book on

10816-439: Was the economist John Maynard Keynes , who came to be an important influence on the newly merged paper, which started with a circulation of just under 13,000. It also absorbed The Week-end Review in 1934 (one element of which survives in the shape of the New Statesman ' s Weekly Competition, and the other the "This England" feature). The Competition feature, in which readers submitted jokes and often parodies and pastiches of

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