November 2024 issue
A year on from the 7th October, Samir Al-Youssef and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen reflect on horror and trauma in the Middle East. Our critics offer a US culture special, while former Nato secretary general George Robertson pens a letter to voters
Past issues
The destruction of the Israel-Gaza war. Image: Emily Edwards / Shutterstock.
Gaza War
The humiliation of trying to survive
Looking back at 7th October and the start of the Gaza war, a Palestinian writer reflects on a year of horror and trauma
Samir El-Youssef
Editor’s Picks
Fragments: when reality falls apart
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Vice President Kamala Harris holds a campaign rally at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin © SIPA US / Alamy Live News
Gender and race won’t hold Kamala Harris back
Jill Abramson
A Spanish/English bilingual sign alerting voters to "Vote here" or "Vote aquí" at an early polling venue in College Station, Texas, USA © AztecBlue / Alamy
A letter to America: Nato is a priceless asset and a firm friend
George Robertson
Ruthless patriarch: Kevin Costner as John Dutton in “Yellowstone”. Image: TCD/Prod.DB / Alamy
Maga goes to Hollywood
Matthew d’Ancona
Russell Akemon’s “I am lying on the back on my old horse” from Wendy Ewald’s “Portraits and Dreams”, a series of photographs taken by children in Appalachia. Image: courtesy the artist and MACK
Beyond Vance
Susie Mesure
Image: Michael Rea
Elif Shafak: ‘We’re living in the Age of Angst’
Prospect Team
People
Machado supporters at a rally last year. Image: Jose Isaac Bula U Photojournalist / Alamy Stock Photo
Venezuela’s opposition leader: ‘The main challenge is to stay alive’
Nash Colundalur
Image: Jody Hartley
Stewart Lee: ‘I reluctantly accept that I’ve been very influential’
Graeme Green
John Myers (left) and Kane Emerson
How yimbys got Labour on board
Ben Clark
Image: Marco Secchi / Alamy
Laurie Anderson: ‘I view my music as a celebration, not a mourning’
Philip Clark
Illustration: John Watson
Senator Tom Cotton: Republicans will follow election laws, even if we don’t like them
Samuel King
Columns
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to Brechfa Forest West Wind Farm, a clean energy site in Pencader, South Wales © PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
Labour’s Welsh wall may crumble
Will Hayward
A Spanish/English bilingual sign alerting voters to "Vote here" or "Vote aquí" at an early polling venue in College Station, Texas, USA © AztecBlue / Alamy
A letter to America: Nato is a priceless asset and a firm friend
George Robertson
Lionel Barber’s diary: what went wrong at the Jewish Chronicle?
Lionel Barber
Vice President Kamala Harris holds a campaign rally at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin © SIPA US / Alamy Live News
Gender and race won’t hold Kamala Harris back
Jill Abramson
Rule of thumb: Tory leadership contender James Cleverly has proposed a “one in, two out” policy for regulation. Credit: Justin Ng/Alamy
With regulation, less isn’t more
Sam Freedman
If in doubt, vote with confidence
Ethan Zuckerman
Illustration by Andy Smith
brat summer is forever
Sarah Ogilvie
Tim Walz speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 22 August. Image by Xinhua / Alamy Stock Photo
The new model citizen
Sasha Mudd
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: November 2024
Letters: November 2024 edition
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: One last amendment...
Chris Tilbury
The Prospect Generalist: November 2024
Image: Michael Rea
Elif Shafak: ‘We’re living in the Age of Angst’
Prospect Team
Features
The destruction of the Israel-Gaza war. Image: Emily Edwards / Shutterstock.
The humiliation of trying to survive
Samir El-Youssef
Fragments: when reality falls apart
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Illustration by Gregori Saavedra
Now more than ever, we need political theatre
David Edgar
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey arriving at the party's autumn conference. Image: JEP Celebrity Photos / Alamy.
My weird weekend with the Liberal Democrats
Jonn Elledge
An illustration of a bearded man's face, looking down. The illustration has a pixel effect, with red and blue colours.© Shutterstock /Illustration by Prospect
The incel trap
Emily Lawford
A woman in a denim jacket and with brown hair in a pony tail faces up to a line of riot police, dressed in black and carrying transparent shields labelled "police". Her arms are raised in the air, in a demonstration of non-violence © Associated Press / Alamy
We are not Russian
Matthew Janney
Illustration by Ben Hickey
Is anyone out there?
James Ball
Culture
Russell Akemon’s “I am lying on the back on my old horse” from Wendy Ewald’s “Portraits and Dreams”, a series of photographs taken by children in Appalachia. Image: courtesy the artist and MACK
Beyond Vance
Susie Mesure
Image: Associated Press / Alamy
The comeback kid
Peter Hoskin
Talk of the town: crowds gather outside Harlem’s Lafayette Theatre for the opening of its federally funded 1936 production of “Macbeth”. Image: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy
Theatre of war
Emily Lawford
Caught in the net: migrants walk alongside the US border wall after crossing the Rio Bravo from Mexico. Image: NurPhoto SRL / Alamy
Bordering on madness
Rory Sullivan
US soldiers posing for a photograph with those they killed at Bud Dajo in the southern Philippines. Image: National Archives and Record Administration College Park MD
An American massacre—1,200 dead
Alex J Kay
Ruthless patriarch: Kevin Costner as John Dutton in “Yellowstone”. Image: TCD/Prod.DB / Alamy
Maga goes to Hollywood
Matthew d’Ancona
Setting the stage: Kamala Harris in her first presidential campaign video. Image: YouTube
The pain in campaign
Imogen West-Knights
If Main Street could talk: Strong City high street in Kansas by Mark Power. Image: Mark Power / Magnum Photos
Rockin’ for the heartland
Laura Barton
James McArdle and Bel-Powley in “The Real Thing”. Image: Manuel Harlan
The season of Webster
Kate Maltby
Living the anarchist dream: Steve Ignorant performing with Crass in Exeter in 1984. Image: Innis McAllister / Alamy
Burn the screens down
Sukhdev Sandhu
The boy tests out his magic horn: a vision of one of Mahler’s song cycles. Image: Lebrecht Music & Arts / Alamy Stock Photo
Classical notes: The big-smallness of Gustav Mahler
Ian Bostridge
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: Rise to the occasion
Michael Brearley
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young life: Moving on and moving out in the London rental hellscape
Alice Garnett
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: Composing a carol
Alice Goodman
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: Emotionally incontinent at the best of times
Sarah Collins
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
Sex life: I fear being stopped at the US border, so I'll never visit
Tilly Lawless
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: Saving seven baby pheasants
Tom Martin
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Long life: There is a cultural chasm in this country that needs to be crossed
Sheila Hancock
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