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Businesses near Kentish Town Tube station, which is closed for repairs, are bracing themselves for further losses with news that it now will not…

The award, championing small presses with fewer than five staff, was won by The Doloriad – an audaciously original novel set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia

Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.

Letters: <strong>Rev Trevor Smith</strong> on being ‘born again’ and <strong>Rt Rev John Saxbee </strong>on how faith can be fanned into a flame. Plus letters from <strong>Rev Dr</strong> <strong>Clive Barrett</strong>,<strong> Fr Alec Mitchell </strong>and<strong> Harold Mozley</strong>

, by Jonathan Daniel Wells (Bold Type Books). This history of eighteen-thirties New York probes the city’s entanglement with the slave economy, which made it “the most potent proslavery and pro-South city north of the Mason-Dixon Line.” Despite the state’s emancipation law of 1817, police marshals and bounty hunters began terrorizing Black communities, abducting several hundred people and selling them into bondage. Alliances between Southern plantation owners and New York bankers, judges, and politicians fostered a system “constructed to cheapen Black lives.” Wel...