by Caro Claire Burke
A honking bore. The protagonist is a one-note mean girl through 38 years of characterisation. There’s a tabloid talk show tenor in the text and understanding of the world, sneering from within and without.
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King Kong Theory
by Virginie Despentes
A shambles, outside of writing about her personal history. Misogynist yardsticks aren’t reclaimable and don’t depose the male gaze. Exudes not-like-other-girls vibes in distorting consequence for cause in prizing masculinity and maligning femininity. Haphazard groundless arguments including aligning with MRA posturing, plural Julie Delpy-style white woman statements (‘It’s … Read more
The Keeper of Lost Things
by Ruth Hogan
Foul
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
by Walter Rodney
DNF 12%
Excruciatingly of another era. Starts from false premises, does not question that man must dominate nature and that progress follows a single inexorable path from hunting communalism to slave-owning states to feudalism to capitalism to socialism. Permanent growth and producing for an anonymous market remain the … Read more
The Souls of Yellow Folk
by Wesley Yang
He’s got his finger on the wrong pulse, the putrid blob of bro culture and anti-pc dinosaurs. This is a fremdscham-inducing collection of clunky essays that are a long decade old, none of them written specifically for this book. The slivers of interrogation related to the title … Read more
Paper Teeth
by Lauralyn Chow
★
Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert
by Hamja Ahsan
The title is excellent.