The New Puritans by Andrew Doyle
The essence of the book is to define how Critical Social Justice (applied post-modernism) operates as an ideology he calls the new puritans.
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Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle
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
Granta 161: Sister, Brother. A touching and sometimes painful memor of sibling rivalry.
Granta 162 – definitive narratives of escape
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.
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis. Entitled. Psychotic. Disturbing. A lengthy novel without much of a story until the dramatic ending.
David Gilmour: The British in India
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
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 New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Managerial Elite by Michael Lind
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
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 – a gentle dystopian tale
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.