Monthly Archives: January 2008

Violence

This short review of Slavoj Zizek’s new book Violence appears this week in Time Out.
When, in November 2005, young men began torching cars and ransacking supermarkets in the suburbs of Paris, they made no demands and had no programme or manifesto, so it was left to intellectuals and commentators to try to make sense of [...]

A Quiet Adjustment

Benjamin Markovits’ previous novel, Imposture, opened with a
prologue, allegedly signed by the author himself. It informed readers that the tale of literary deception they were about to begin was in fact the work of a former teaching colleague of his named Peter Pattieson. It claimed that Pattieson had left Markovits a bundle of papers, among [...]