Posts tagged literature
Make 2018 The Year Of You With The Help Of These 5 Books

Naomi Klein's book, No Is Not Enough, is a rapid response to the rise of Trump and she analyses his presidential campaign amongst other things in terms of his brand. She gives an insightful view of how Donald Trump has become so powerful, she see's him as a copy of pretty much all the catastrophic trends that have happened in the last half century. To simply describe it, the first half concentrates on what got Donald Trump into the White House and the second half acts as a manifesto for what we can do. 

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No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics By Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein's book, No Is Not Enough, is a rapid response to the rise of Trump and she analyses his presidential campaign amongst other things in terms of his brand. She gives an insightful view of how Donald Trump has become so powerful, she see's him as a copy of pretty much all the catastrophic trends that have happened in the last half century. To simply describe it, the first half concentrates on what got Donald Trump into the White House and the second half acts as a manifesto for what we can do. 

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Ariel Bissett: Modern Poetry

For many of us, we will automatically gravitate towards fiction and the best-selling charts when we're perusing a book shop. We'll not pause for a moment to even think about finding a book of poems... unless maybe for a gift... a coffee table book... or a comical one for the downstairs loo. We thought it may just be us, but we were encouraged to listen to Ariel and to find that she too had felt this divide between the world of novels in contrast to poetry. It got us thinking, why is it that we feel this disconnect to poetry? ... 

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