Tag: Book Review
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THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE
There is a particular kind of intelligence required to notice what everybody else has agreed not to notice. David Sedaris has built a career from it. For more than three decades, he has observed families, airports, shop assistants, lovers, language lessons, neighbours, strangers and himself with the peculiar concentration of an anthropologist who has somehow…
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THE MOST SECRET MEMORY OF MEN
Author: Mohamed Mbougar SarrTranslated from the French by Lara VergnaudPublisher: Other PressFirst published: 2021English-language edition: 2023Pages: 496Genre: Literary Fiction / Postcolonial FictionOriginal title: La plus secrète mémoire des hommesAwards: Prix Goncourt 2021 The Writer, the Myth and the Literary Machine There are novels about writers, and there are novels that interrogate the entire machinery by…
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Monstrous Bitch
Who Gets to Be a Monster? Book: Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying WomenAuthor: Eleanor JohnsonPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication: 6 October 2026Pages: 344ISBN: 9780691291666Genre: Cultural history / Feminist criticism / Mythology There are monsters, and then there are women who have been made monstrous. The distinction lies at the heart of Eleanor Johnson’s wonderfully provocative…
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The New Dark Ages
What We Lose When We Stop Reading Book: The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate SocietyAuthor: James MarriottPublisher: The Bodley HeadPublication: 3 September 2026Pages: 208ISBN: 9781847929518Genre: Cultural criticism / Social commentary / Media studies There is something almost quaint about worrying about the death of reading. We have…
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The Nerd Reich Review
Book Review They Told Us What They Wanted Gil Durán exposes a Silicon Valley oligarchy that does not merely want to govern without us, but has begun to imagine most human beings as obstacles, dependants or waste By Bergotte Gil Durán, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on DemocracyAvid Reader Press /…
