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Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson: Brexit and the End of Empire
Things fall apart when empires crumble. Rediscovery of past glories is attempted again and again, until eventually those living in what was once the …
7 years, 2 months ago
Notes to Self: Emilie Pine and Katherine Angel
First published by Irish independent Tramp Press, Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self became a phenomenal word-of-mouth bestseller. Now picked up on this sid…
7 years, 3 months ago
John Lanchester and Daniel Soar: The Wall
John Lanchester’s new novel, The Wall, is a Kafkaesque nightmare whose richly-imagined world is very different from our own and yet all too familiar.…
7 years, 3 months ago
Out of the Woods: Luke Turner and Olivia Laing
After the disintegration of the most significant relationship of his life, the demons Luke Turner has been battling since childhood are quick to retu…
7 years, 3 months ago
Simon Garfield and Andy Miller: In Miniature
Simon Garfield – 'The schoolteacher who made the time fly, a one-man Blue Peter team for intelligent adults, a great British explainer’, according to…
7 years, 3 months ago
Mathias Enard and Elif Shafak: Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants
Man Booker International-shortlisted novelist Mathias Enard, 'the most brazenly lapel-grabbing French author since Michel Houellebecq', returns with …
7 years, 4 months ago
Lisa Appignanesi and Lara Feigel: Everyday Madness
After the death of her partner of thirty-two years, Lisa Appignanesi was thrust into a state striated by rage and superstition in which sanity felt e…
7 years, 4 months ago
Peak Inequality: Danny Dorling and Faiza Shaheen
In Peak Inequality: Britain’s Ticking Time Bomb Danny Dorling presents the evidence that in 2018 the growth in UK income inequality may have finally …
7 years, 4 months ago
Tony Wood and James Meek: Russia Without Putin
Does the West’s obsession with Vladimir Putin prevent it from genuinely understanding Russia? In Russia Without Putin (Verso), LRB contributor and Ru…
7 years, 5 months ago
Jenny Hval and Laura Snapes: Paradise Rot
‘Like Björk and FKA Twigs, Norwegian artist Jenny Hval presents a version of female sexuality in which carnal impulses, anxieties and the female/male…
7 years, 5 months ago