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Stephen Bush Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Stephen Bush is an associate editor and columnist at the Financial Times. Associate editor and columnist @FinancialTimes. Tweet about politics, policy, culture, nerd stuff. Tongue mostly in cheek. Get my newsletter here 👇

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Book Cover for: Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?, Christopher Bertram

Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?

Christopher Bertram
Stephen BushStephen Bush

I mean, what is the actual impartiality issue here? Is Gary Lineker going to start Match of the Day by reading from Chris Bertram's Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants??

Paperback, 2018

$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture, Sudhir Hazareesingh

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

Sudhir Hazareesingh
Stephen BushStephen Bush

Anyway, Sudhir Hazareesingh's 'Black Spartacus', great book.

Paperback, 2021

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Hybrid Hate: Conflations of Antisemitism & Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich, Tudor Parfitt

Hybrid Hate: Conflations of Antisemitism & Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich

Tudor Parfitt
Stephen BushStephen Bush

From Tudor Parfitt’s magnificent “Hybrid Hate”. Tag yourself, I’m “wild”. https://t.co/zya6v2VnHK

Hardcover, 2020

$44.99$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: On Beauty, Zadie Smith

On Beauty

Zadie Smith
Stephen BushStephen Bush

At this point, I begin to wonder if I really *needed* to download Zadie Smith’s On Beauty in advance of getting on the half past four train back to London. Maybe that wasn’t the best use of my battery, I think.

Paperback, 2006

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Fraud, Zadie Smith

The Fraud

Zadie Smith
Stephen BushStephen Bush

Fans will find much they recognise in her tremendous new novel, which tells the story of a novelist, his mistress and a controversial trial over a 50-year period…Just like White Teeth, The Fraud is a novel that illuminates what it is to live and to love in the 21st century.

Hardcover, 2023

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics, Kenan Malik

Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics

Kenan Malik
Stephen BushStephen Bush

@ptr_mcl @crookedfootball Whereas ‘Elite Capture’ (and in the popular market, Kenan Malik’s Not So Black and White) make serious political and intellectual arguments that have a similar shape but not actually a similar content to MG or RH.

Hardcover, 2023

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sea Wall, Simon Stephens

Sea Wall

Simon Stephens
Stephen BushStephen Bush

‘Sea Wall’ is the name of a brilliant one-act play by Simon Stephens. It is not, and will never be, a meaningful or useful term for “coastal constituencies”. https://t.co/kR8QDolRty

Paperback, 2019

$10.95$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book