I’ve reviewed When the Clock Broke by John Ganz for the latest London Review of Books, asking how the rise of Trump might change what we consider to be a ‘model case’ of a crisis, and its correlates in the UK.
Category: Reviews
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‘Generation anxiety’
Review essay on Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, published in London Review of Books.
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‘The petit bourgeois insurrection’
Review essay on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, published in The New Statesman
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‘Antimarket’
Review of The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism won’t save the planet by Brett Christophers, published in the latest London Review of Books.
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‘The 2010s: a decade of revolutionaries without revolution’
A review essay for The New Statesman, examining two new books on the 2010s, If We Burn by Vincent Bevins and The Populist Moment by Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger.
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Review of Doppelganger
Review of Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein, published in The Guardian.
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‘A dog in the fight’
I’ve written about the phenomenon of ‘fandom’, especially how it was fetishised and commercialised in the early 1990s, in the latest London Review of Books, in a review of Paul Campos’s A Fan’s Life.
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‘The business-lounge intellectual’
Review of Martin Wolf’s new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, published in The New Statesman
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‘Theory wars: how postmodernism became weaponised’
Review of Stuart Jeffries new book, Everything All The Time Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern, published in The New Statesman.
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Review of Gordon Brown’s book
I reviewed Seven Ways to Change the World by Gordon Brown for The Guardian
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How did ‘the market’ become a thing?
Review of Matthew Watson’s The Market, published in Theory Culture & Society.
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Review essay of Strangers in their Own Land
Published in International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society, alongside a response from the author, Arlie Russell Hocschild.
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