David Shariatmadari

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan: insanely skilful. Start each chapter and you just get pulled along like you're on a waterslide.

David Shariatmadari

"Cumming writes with the sureness of carefully laid paint" - Kathryn Hughes on @LauraCummingArt's Thunderclap https://t.co/JeEFL8rJK2

David Shariatmadari

"People can also be primed to hallucinate Bing Crosby singing White Christmas while listening to pure white noise." @stevenpoole on Andy Clark's intriguing new book about consciousness https://t.co/AtpBkt0QCA

David Shariatmadari

His book’s title, End Times, doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, but it does provide a clear theory about how we got into this mess, and how to get out of it. There are some familiar concepts here… but others… are much less widely recognised, and genuinely eye-opening.

David Shariatmadari

"We can decide, in a panic of self-righteousness, to cast all their work aside and consign it to a cultural deep freeze. Or we can choose instead to keep it in full view" - Kathryn Hughes on Claire Dederer's Monsters https://t.co/o49lOnIsvI

David Shariatmadari

'Mordden makes it clear that, for decades, far from being a cowardly option, the closet was a necessity, offstage and on' - @eggsbened reviews Ethan Mordden's history of, well, gays on Broadway https://t.co/1OlNYzPspg