The subtitle to the book, Kill All Normies, By Angla Nagle, is “Online culture wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right.”
Granta 161: Sister, Brother. A touching and sometimes painful memor of sibling rivalry.
Granta 162 – definitive narratives of escape. An enjoyable and intimate collection of memoirs and fiction about grief and our escape from it.
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis. Entitled. Psychotic. Disturbing. A lengthy novel without much of a story until the dramatic ending.
Davild Gilmour’s book ‘The British in India’ is a journey through a vast array of social aspects of the British presence in India up to the end of the empire.
Poster Girl by Veronica Roth is a mild dystopian thriller set after a coup in which the lead character finds out about past misdemeanours she was caught up in.
The class war is one found between technocratic neo-liberalism, governed by the governing elites and the native working class populists.
Rage by Bob Woodward is not quite a biography of Donald Trump, rather more of a series of interviews scaffolded by USA entering the COVID pandemic.
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng, brings together a number of themes to create a ‘what if’ scenario in the near future. Ultimately, a gentle dystopian tale.
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith is densely written novel with a number of sub plots. For a murder investigation it is a lot of pages – over a thousand.