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Apr 17, 201712 min read
An Antidote to Peterson
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Jordan Peterson, Penguin, 2018 I first saw Jordan Peterson last summer on a provincial train...
Apr 17, 20171 min read
My Hands are Light Blue
Silent gesture of unbeing: Silk slip slips, Upslips, unslips up. Cold elbow outcrooked In gesture silent unbent Unto ungesture Untowards...
Apr 17, 20171 min read
Ghazal
In the end, when the world has taken the full hush of me, It will be said that there had been quite enough of me. I swore that I would...
Apr 17, 201713 min read
Genealogical Anxiety: An Interview with Amia Srinivasan
Amia Srinivasan speaks with a hybrid English-American accent, and has the professor’s habit of punctuating what you have asked or said...
Apr 17, 20178 min read
Refabricating the Past
Charlotte Salomon: ‘Life? or Theatre?’ A Selection of 450 Gouaches by Judith Belinfante and Evelyn Benesch, Taschen, November 2017...
Apr 17, 201715 min read
Too Pure an Air for a Slave
Black Tudors Miranda Kaufmann, Oneworld, 2017 Black and British David Olusoga, Pan Macmillan, 2016 The year is 1511. King Henry VIII and...
Apr 17, 201711 min read
World-hopping
The Book of Dust Vol I: La Belle Sauvage Philip Pullman, David Fickling Books, 2017 Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling Philip Pullman,...
Apr 17, 20179 min read
Israeli Score-Settling?
At 8.30am on 3 November, the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri received a message from King Salman of Saudi Arabia instructing him to...
Apr 17, 201713 min read
The Bedside of the Mind
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov Gennady Barabtarlo, Princeton, 2017 ‘The most moronic fraternity in the...
Apr 17, 20175 min read
Deluge of Reality
Human Flow Ai Weiwei, Amazon Studios, 2017 We are inundated with film, television, and visual arts that ‘speak to the moment’. Social and...
Apr 17, 201711 min read
Signal to the Gatekeepers
Why Does Inequality Matter? T M Scanlon, Oxford University Press, 2018 Global Inequality Branko Milanovic, Harvard University Press, 2016...
Apr 17, 20178 min read
Behind the Camera
Towards the close of This Is Not a Film (2011), a despondent Jafar Panahi is cajoled by his friend and fellow filmmaker Mojtaba...
Apr 17, 20177 min read
Big Clunking Fist
My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown, Penguin 2017 Shortly after John Smith’s death, Gordon Brown discovered his was one of those professions...
Apr 17, 20179 min read
How the Text Lost its Body
In the 1980s when the web was in a protozoic stage of forums known as usenet, Mark V Shaney was a prolific and eclectic user. His posts...
Apr 17, 20178 min read
'ME TOO' IN CHINA
Leta Hong Fincher is one of the leading authors writing in English about contemporary Chinese feminism. With a background as a...
Mar 1, 20176 min read
Kicked out of Cliveden
We were a motley duo as we wandered into the glowing grounds of Cliveden House in our denim jackets and dirty rucksacks, clutching...
Feb 1, 20179 min read
Mary Poppins, Murderer
Lullaby Leïla Slimani, trans. by Sam Taylor, Faber and Faber, 2018 Dans le jardin de l’ogre Leïla Slimani, Gallimard, 2014 When a writer...
Feb 1, 20177 min read
In Spires
The spire stood alone outside the window, an isolated grey tower, traffic curling around it on either side. Next to it, the stolid,...
Jan 1, 20177 min read
Fairytale Economics
by Max Cohen Earlier this year the academic, student and professional network Rethinking Economics held a workshop-retreat in the Peak...
Apr 1, 201613 min read
To Shoot at Mountains
HOPE SUTHERLAND - Min Jin Lee’s new novel traces the nuances of Japanese Korean issues through four generations of family life.
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