Week Ahead #3: Juggling Knives, Birley Sandwiches, and Prince
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The philosophers’ suicide pact: Ryan Ruby’s high-stakes novel Zero and the One
For two cerebral Oxford undergraduates the obscure writings of a German thinker become a matter of life and death.
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How to fix the welfare state
From the “Swindon experiment” and beyond, Hilary Cottam’s ideas could transform our social crisis.
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Alison Moore’s Missing explores the lasting effects of early trauma
In under 200 pages, Moore skilfully delivers a twisty, suspenseful story that doubles as a study of unspoken grief.
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How humans claim – and change – the landscape
In recent years, writing about landscape has begun to confront troublesome human drive to own nature.
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How Hernando Colón compiled the greatest private library in Europe
The untold story of Christopher Columbus’s bibliophile son.
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Mariana Mazzucato’s bold mission to reform the global economy
In The Value of Everything, Mazzucato points out our flawed economic measures. But solutions are in short supply.
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Why Robert Aickman is the master of “weird fiction”
Reading Aickman’s strange stories is to glimpse a reality you would prefer to forget.
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