DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Best of 2019: Books
EYEING APOCALYPSE: Laszlo Krasznahorkai
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
FOLLOWING recent electoral torsions, the commentariat have progressed to the bargaining and depression stages of grief.
At first we had denial, with incredulous books by bien-pensant journalists about the apparently new phenomenon of “post-truth.” Then we had anger, with the gossipy accounts of Donald Trump’s boorish behaviour in the White House and the high jinks of those bad boys of Brexit.
This year we’ve been faced with a raft of books about social media, reflecting upon how these technologies, meant to emancipate, have in fact enslaved us by strategies of divide attention and rule.
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