Granta 153 – Second Nature: climate in crisis
Granta has drifted over the past few issues to this one so it was a welcome return to form. This issue was a sideways step from the usual publication with a theme in that it had a guest editor –…
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Book reviews
Barack Obama – A Promised Land: Respectable Politics
This is a lengthy biography of Barack Obama’s time when he became senator up to the end of his first term as president. The early section on his growing up has been covered before and yet gives little away how…
Radar 6 February 2021
What is currently on my radar. What I am reading A Promised Land by Barak Obama – written as a detailed chronicle of his time in power rather than an entertaining mass market read. What podcast I am listening to…
The Silence: Don Delillo
I have not read a novel by Don Delillo before but I was more than aware of his fame to be attracted by this apparent zeitgeist novella about what would happen if, god forbid, the wifi went down. There are…