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...
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- Apr 17, 2017
- 1 min
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, 2017
- 1 min
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, 2017
- 13 min
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, 2017
- 8 min
Refabricating the Past
Charlotte Salomon: ‘Life? or Theatre?’ A Selection of 450 Gouaches by Judith Belinfante and Evelyn Benesch, Taschen, November 2017...
- Apr 17, 2017
- 15 min
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, 2017
- 11 min
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, 2017
- 9 min
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, 2017
- 13 min
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, 2017
- 5 min
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, 2017
- 11 min
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, 2017
- 8 min
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, 2017
- 7 min
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, 2017
- 9 min
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, 2017
- 8 min
'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, 2017
- 6 min
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, 2017
- 9 min
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, 2017
- 7 min
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, 2017
- 7 min
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, 2016
- 13 min
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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