Sympathetic Magic Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America & The World Barbara Ehrenreich, London: Granta, 256 pp., £10.99 Endorsements by Christopher Hitchens and Nora Ephron do not inspire confidence in Smile or Die. Nor does Barbara Ehrenreich’s website, with its list of soporific- sounding previous publications, which includes Long March, Short Spring: The Student… Continue reading
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With Wallenstein in High Germany
With Wallenstein in High Germany It is a small town in Bavaria, and it is at least 32 degrees C. The camera weighs heavy in my hands, and I can feel speckles of sweat accumulating beneath my black rucksack, as it soaks up the sun like a square and sinister sponge. All around us are… Continue reading
Leicester – the arrhythmic heart of England
Leicester – the arrhythmic heart of England The city of Leicester is about as far from the sea as one can get in England. But one sweltering August day, when everyone else was heading down to the beaches, we were driving in the opposite direction so that I could fill in a long-troubling gap on… Continue reading