21 May, 2012
Friends in High Places
Alexandra Shulman's Can We Still Be Friends is a Cameronite retrospective of Thatcherism that rehearses familiar prejudices.
Debtocracy
David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years explores the history of a concept with the same roots as "guilt" and "sin".
A Very Long Engagement
Nadine Gordimer's No Time Like the Present is a subtle attempt to surpass the revolutionary fatigue of modern South Africa.
Inviolate, Unreaching
Tate Modern's Damien Hirst is an Olympic year British blockbuster that offers glimpses of an ephemeral poetry.
Three Poems
Original poetry by Joe Kennedy.
