MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Best of 2019: Books
EYEING APOCALYPSE: Laszlo Krasznahorkai
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
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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The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
FIONA O’CONNOR questions the achievement of this year’s Orwell prize winner for political fiction
From post-human revolution in Puerto Rico to trans poetics and queer mythmaking, these three books that imagine new ways of being together