Zeitschrift | Ausgabe
London Review of Books 45 (2023), 5
When I deleted my Twitter account in September last year, provoked not by Elon Musk’s imminent takeover but by the suffocating quantity of royal coverage gushing from every media source, I was left feeling bereft, as any addict is when their drug is taken away. How was I supposed to react to the news now? And if I had no way of reacting to the news, what did I want from the news? Am I even interested in the news, if I have no opportunity to react to it? Being in the digital public sphere without any means to react is a bit like being trapped in a shopping mall without any money.
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William Davies
The Reaction Economy
Raymond N. MacKenzie
This Woman, This Man by George Sand, translated by Graham Anderson
This Was the Man by Louise Colet, translated by Graham Anderson
James Butler
Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care by Madeleine Bunting
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? by Emma Dowling
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care and the Planet by Nancy Fraser
Tareq Baconi
Short Cuts: Israel’s Liberal Bubble
Matthew Bevis
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. Poems, Vol. I: 1927-39 edited by Edward Mendelson
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. Poems, Vol. II: 1940-73 edited by Edward Mendelson
Irina Dumitrescu
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships by Barbara Newman
Frances Morgan
At Tate Liverpool: Turner Prize 2022
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Saint Omer’
Eric Foner
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War Two at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont
An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era by Beth Bailey
Michael Hofmann
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann, translated by Lucy Jones