7-13 January 2022
IN THIS ISSUE
20 Last chance saloon Has Boris Johnson’s luck finally run out?
24 Soft power, hard tactics Katie Stallard on China’s silencing of Peng Shuai
30 Christopher Hitchens’s failures Ross Douthat on the writer’s troubled legacy
34 Books of 2022 The themes and titles dominating the year ahead
42 Joni Mitchell and me Kate Mossman meets Cary Raditz
51 Paul Thomas Anderson’s delight Why his new film Licorice Pizza is a tonic for dark days
62 The NS Q&A: Steven Pinker The psychologist on social media and 1950s New York
Hitting the wall: Tim Ross on Boris Johnson’s crises
Break point: Peng Shuai
Mean old daddy: Cary Raditz
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