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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...

The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

Assumption by Percival Everett

How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life And Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian by Stewart Lee

Home And Away: Writing The Beautiful Game by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund

The Perfect Fool by Stewart Lee

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Horse Destroys The Universe by Cyriak Harris

Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders

The Red Men by Matthew De Abaitua

The Dinner by Herman Koch

Umbrella by Will Self

Think Like An Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke

Cinnamon Skin by John D MacDonald