I’ve broken an arm, right at the elbow, where it seized. I’ve torn out ligaments, burned a hole into my wrist with an iron that still shows up bandage perforation and always will. Scars run like tributaries along kneecaps, triceps, ankles. I even bear the forceps marks of birth. None of that is strange. Everyone […]
Martha C. Nussbaum’s central argument in Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (2010) is that a high quotient of liberal arts education is essential for healthful democracies and human happiness. Education needs to be for something, after all, and this sweeping aim (freedom and joy) would be difficult for most to argue against […]
“In considering who should manage the last days of the decline of an empire, we are paralysed by the thought: If not Barack Obama then Mitt Romney”. William Wall reviews Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion by AK Press
In his 1921 “Manifesto on the Immediate Futurisation of Life” Bruno Jasieński called for Poland’s national poets – “the stale mummies of mickiewiczes and słowackis” – to make way from the “plazas, squares and streets” for the new: Futurists like himself. Many years later, as Soren Gauger tells us in the afterword to this excellent […]
A lot of people are cynical about the sexual revolution. Most acknowledge that the new set of sex and dating rules has produced ‘confusion’. Some go so far as to label it ‘anarchy’ that will ‘destroy society’. We are told that women can have sex like men if they want to – that consenting adults […]
Latest novel from DBC Pierre, Booker prize winning author of Vernon God Little.
First novel by Iranian born author Marsha Mehran. Three Iranian sisters arrive in the west of Ireland, bringing their exotic cuisine.
Man Booker prize nominated novel set in civil war Russia, with a cast of Czech soldiers, religiously inspired castrates, and communists.
Clones, misogyny and acidic nihilism. Business as usual for IMPAC prize winning French writer Michel Houellebecq, author of Atomised, and Platform.
Régis Debray’s purpose in this major new book is to trace the episodes of the genesis of God, His itinerary and the costs of His survival.
