Monthly Archives: December 2008

2008 - again

I’ve contributed to Prospect’s review of the most overrated and underrated events of 2008 -cultural and otherwise.

On world literature

My essay on the idea of global literature appears in the Christmas issue of the New Statesman.

Books of the Year

I’ve contributed to Granta’s books of the year roundup here.

Obama: the revenge of the black nerd

I have a post up at the Prospect blog First Drafts. It deals with some of the fall-out from the debates I explored in my piece in the December issue of that magazine.

Democratiya

The new issue of Democratiya, containing several articles on Barack Obama among other delights, is now online.