Rosemary Hill · What does she think she looks like?: The Dress in Your Head · LRB 28 March 2018
Friday, June 22nd, 2018
This isn’t an essay about clothes, exactly, nor is it about fashion, quite. It is about women and clothes and something that happens between them that we could think of as a kind of third rail of female experience. I’ve thought about this for some time but my thoughts were focused when I saw Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven’s 2016 film, Elle. The film begins with a rape about which the victim, Huppert, is ambivalent. This sent the critics, particularly male critics, scuttling to and fro wondering whether
Source: Rosemary Hill · What does she think she looks like?: The Dress in Your Head · LRB 28 March 2018
Pankaj Mishra reviews ‘The People v. Democracy’ by Yascha Mounk and ‘Not Enough’ by Samuel Moyn
Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Vol. 40 No. 12 · 21 June 2018 pages 9-13 | 4934 words facebook twitter emailletterciteprint Tlarger | smaller The Mask It Wears Pankaj Mishra BuyThe People v. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It by Yascha Mounk Harvard, 400 pp, £21.95, March, ISBN 978 0 674 97682 5 BuyNot Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn Harvard, 277 pp, £21.95, April, ISBN 978 0 674 73756 3 American liberals, Samuel Moyn wrote last year in Dissent, have never broken ‘wit
Oundjian leaves Avon for Orion | The Bookseller
Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Victoria Oundjian, currently editor at Avon, is joining Orion Fiction as commissioning editor. She will be working on the women’s fiction list and report to publishing director Clare Hey. At Avon, Oundjian oversaw the digital publishing list and the launch of Avon’s open submissions through their website. She recently published The Memories of Us by Vanessa Carnevale, Toxic by Jacqui Rose and The Year of New Adventures by Maddie Please. Before that she was head of HQ Digital where she published the 2016 Ki
Source: Oundjian leaves Avon for Orion | The Bookseller
Ben Okri signs ‘signficant’ new book with HoZ | The Bookseller
Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Head of Zeus has signed rights to Man Booker Prize winner Ben Okri’s “timely” new novel The Freedom Artist.In the title, a young man grieving for his missing lover searches for answers, while a young boy embarks on a journey of ritual transformation to seek out the oldest myths. Their journeys play out against the disintegration of a society allegorical to our own.
Source: Ben Okri signs ‘signficant’ new book with HoZ | The Bookseller
