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Conversations On Kindness by Bernadette Russell

I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I’m not sure if I’d known what was coming, I would have started it so impulsively. We live in a world where the leader of a major political party (I had to check this was actually true, as I’ve been ill and was concerned I’d had a fever dream where I’d imagined she was a senior politician) describes diversity initiatives as a “poison” , and the presumptive leader of the “free world” (apologies for the liberal use of parentheses, but I’m struggling to overcome deep skepticism about the cultural and political structures which we tend to take for granted and feel powerless to alter for the benefit of us all – i.e. those whose labour is exploited by capital [ more on this later ]) can call the teaching staff at Harvard “woke” and blame the first tragic air disaster in more than 20 years on disabled staff at air traffic control . These are facts, I checked! It’s worth interjecting at this point with a quick definition of woke, as expresse...

Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino

All The Days And Nights by Niven Govinden

Open Door by Iosi Havilio

Under The Dust by Jordi Coca

Keeping Mum by The Dark Angels Collective

Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon

The New Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

The Turquoise Lament by John D. MacDonald

Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes

The Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber

Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts

A Bright Moon For Fools by Jasper Gibson

Here and Now: UK Hyperlocal Media Today by NESTA

The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth