This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter

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You mainly write on identity politics and religion, what advice would you give to anyone looking to write on these topics? Searing short stories... Puntí is unafraid to explore the uncomfortable rifts of his characters' lives, particularly the lies they tell themselves to embolden or confront their justifications of their situations." -- Booklist You see? We’d never be able to have kids, you and I,” she blurted out in a pause, with a soberness that didn’t match the happiness of the moment. “We wouldn’t even know how to swing them, let alone parent them. Imagine what a disaster we’d be.” From the acclaimed, prize-winning Catalonian author of the novel Lost Luggage, a collection of nine masterful short stories about adulthood, heartbreak, and outsiders in search of their place in the world. Ongoing Covid restrictions, reduced air and freight capacity, high volumes and winter weather conditions are all impacting transportation and local delivery across the globe.

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Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she has “nothing to hide” but repeatedly refused to say whether she deleted messages sought by the UK Covid inquiry. The former first minister was challenged over reports that she destroyed communications that have been requested by the investigation. The Scottish... Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she has “nothing to hide” but repeatedly refused to say whether she deleted messages sought by the UK Covid inquiry. The former first minister was challenged over reports that she destroyed communications that have been requested by the investigation. The Scottish... Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she has “nothing to hide” but repeatedly refused to say whether she deleted messages sought by the...The term cultural cringe makes an early appearance in Tomiwa Owolade’s This Is Not America. Coined by the Australian critic AA Phillips to express the fawning relationship of some of his fellow citizens to traditional British culture, Owolade believes it applies to the attitudes of many contemporary Britons towards the US. America is often accepted as the primary shaper of truths. Its landscapes, myths and histories can seem closer to us than our own. Like it or not, we’re all, to some degree, in its thrall. But surely Boakye is just describing a heartfelt view; it’s hardly insulting. At times, This Is Not America possesses a surprising tetchiness, given that its author, a battle-hardened cultural critic, has remained largely unfazed by ugly online abuse from detractors targeting him as someone, he says, “who deviates from the orthodoxy” of race conversations. Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times, Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and New Statesman A man recalls a past love as he strolls through the lonely streets of Barcelona. A hitchhiker on the outskirts of the city of Vic carries his secrets in a briefcase. In northern Catalonia, a villager receives letters from a long-estranged brother and grapples with how to respond. Then there's the man who wants to surprise his wife with a trip to Paris, only to swap it for a solitary cruise. Searing short stories... Puntí is unafraid to explore the uncomfortable rifts of his characters’ lives, particularly the lies they tell themselves to embolden or confront their justifications of their situations.” — Booklist

This Is Not America: Why Black Lives In Britain Matter This Is Not America: Why Black Lives In Britain Matter

Behind the self-confident image of the world's most influential country we now see a nation tearing itself apart, its people angry and afraid. The United States may arguably be the world's only superpower, but its internal tensions are a symptom of suffering and deep division, a condition only exacerbated by the election of President Donald Trump. Many people believe that Britain is divided. Whether that be geographically with a north and south divide, politically after what happened with the Brexit vote or now through the cost-of-living crisis and the economic divide it’s causing. Sometimes the invisible word was related with the street they’d started out from, or they used the game to comment on everyday matters with monosyllabic shopping-list words—“juice,” “bread,” “milk”—but there were also days when they didn’t feel like saying anything or were in a bad mood, and then they walked separately, wherever they wanted, randomly filling the city with unintelligible scribbles. Jordi Puntí is not only Catalonia's most important writer, but he is also one of the funniest, most perceptive writers in all of Europe. This Is Not America is a tour-de-force story collection set on both sides of the Atlantic." — Gary Shteyngart

Falcon was a somber anomaly at the height of the Reagan years, when many films were refighting Vietnam (spoiler: this time, We Win), fervidly imagining Soviet or terrorist invasions of the heartland, or equating the Grenada invasion with Korea and Vietnam. Akin to the weary spymastering of John LeCarre’s Smiley novels, Falcon is a pair of jaded innocents bungling things abroad, two pawns given a few spaces of movement on the board before being swept off. Hutton’s Boyce is an idealist as well as something of a pompous fool; Penn’s Lee is a wretched user whose comeuppance at the hand of the Mexican police is awful and tragic. Some of the titles you write for on a freelance basis include the New Statesman, The Times and The Observer. What was the process like in getting commissioned by these titles and how can aspiring journalists get commissioned?

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I always thought he sounded a bit like Dusty Springfield in the chorus, which seemed oddly prescient when the Pet Shop Boys began working with her soon after wards. Great song though-probably one of his top five in the 80’s (post SS) I was listening to the original cast recording from Lazarus for the first time today, and when this song came on, I actually started crying. The new version of this song is just incredibly haunting and beautiful; in fact, if someone can get Sophia Anne Caruso to record cover versions of every single David Bowie song ever recorded, I’d be all in favour of it. Her version of Life on Mars? is gorgeous as well.

I mostly know and listen to the 2000 version. And love it. But the original production is not too bad either, I actually don’t mind for the key change to happen earlier in the song. Knowing the 2000 version first the early key change trew me off at first but over time I’ve actually became quite fond of it… 🙂