Anglophone histories of the novel often note that a separation of literary value from entertainment value takes place around the advent of modernism. In contrast to the social content that drives Victorian narrative fiction, style becomes the subject of the modernist novel, whose impulse towards formal innovation – making it new – occludes prior conventionsContinue reading “Redburn: Labor and Literature”
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Whose Myth are You: Mythocracy by Yves Citton
Several months ago, I listened to a podcast on Quinn Slobodian’s most recent book Hayek’s Bastards (2025), in which he referred to the scripts and narratives used to orientate oneself in the world as forming the ‘supply-side’ of political populism. Whilst the ‘demand-side’ considers the nebulous factors that lure voters towards populist figures, the ‘supply-side’,Continue reading “Whose Myth are You: Mythocracy by Yves Citton”
Thomas Travers 