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  1. Have rock lyrics seen their day? DJ Taylor thinks so: http://tinyurl.com/27axsvc but @juderogers says no! http://tinyurl.com/359hgcs about 5 hours ago via web
  2. Leading cademic condemns the "hollow" work of British novelists such as Amis, Rushdie and McEwan http://tinyurl.com/377oxkl 4:48 AM Jul 29th via web
  3. RT @NewStatesman: Will Self on railway dinners, Millie's Cookies and firing squads http://bit.ly/d2jmpo 3:53 AM Jul 28th via web
  4. Booker longlist announced: Tremain, Mitchell, McCarthy, Jacobson, Levy, Carey and more - http://tinyurl.com/2fr4o28 8:59 AM Jul 27th via web
  5. Don't miss tomorrow's free NS debate on young people+politics. Jammer, Bonnie Greer and the Communities Minister: http://tinyurl.com/28qg8uo 4:17 AM Jul 27th via web
  6. The UK Film Council wasn't perfect, but we need a campaign to save British cinema, writes Ryan Gilbey @Ryan_Man2: http://tinyurl.com/35qu549 3:47 AM Jul 27th via web
  7. UK Film Council abolished - good news for British film? http://tinyurl.com/33swdnc 6:07 AM Jul 26th via web
  8. Read @samirashackle's Books Interview with Emma Larkin, who writes under a pseudonym about the situation in Burma http://bit.ly/cBf2yP 3:33 AM Jul 26th via web
  9. Watch Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti reading extracts from his work: http://tinyurl.com/386ftj2 3:57 AM Jul 24th via web
  10. Cutting the arts would be a mark of a philistine government, says Sholto Byrnes: http://tinyurl.com/33lp7tq 1:20 AM Jul 24th via web
  11. Is Mark Rylance the brightest star of British theatre? http://tinyurl.com/2dv8gmm 2:46 AM Jul 23rd via web
  12. Bret Easton Ellis's "Imperial Bedrooms" reviewed by @soumya1910 http://tinyurl.com/2eadn9b 2:46 AM Jul 23rd via web
  13. RT @ArtificialEye: Andrew Kotting speaks to @DanielTrilling over at the New Statesman -> http://tinyurl.com/23pjpfp 7:08 AM Jul 22nd via web
  14. Ryan Gilbey reviews Andrew Kotting's new film: http://tinyurl.com/35cf3cw, plus interview with the director: http://tinyurl.com/23pjpfp 5:08 AM Jul 22nd via web
  15. This week's Critics: Peter Hain on the Mandelson memoirs, @pennyred on baby boomers and why Mozart is over-rated: http://tinyurl.com/26xwco6 4:46 AM Jul 22nd via web
  16. @danhancox Phew, thanks for pointing that out - avoided a serious loss of cultural capital there! 8:06 AM Jul 20th via web
  17. Here's an NS exclusive! Details of the forthcoming Kurt Cobain biopic: http://tinyurl.com/33vrejh 4:22 AM Jul 20th via web
  18. RT: @NewStatesman: John Gray on the cult of Ayn Rand http://bit.ly/cQXxgF 4:00 AM Jul 20th via web
  19. Mercury Prize shortlist announced: http://tinyurl.com/2vck43a 3:58 AM Jul 20th via web
  20. Alain de Botton on a religion for atheists: http://bit.ly/9UxGva 4:26 AM Jul 19th via web
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