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‘The Street Sweeper’ by Elliot Perlman
Culture
Elliot Perlman’s new novel, set in New York, traces the unlikely lines of connection between a set of characters from a broad social and historical spectrum. The ‘street sweeper’ of the title is Lamont Williams, an African–American man fresh out …
Quaint misogyny
Culture
‘Mad Men: Season Four’
‘Caleb’s Crossing’ By Geraldine Brooks
Culture
Caleb’s Crossing extends Geraldine Brooks’s interest in the early history of the United States, first explored in her Pulitzer Prize–winning March, which is set during the Civil War. Here, she writes about the seventeenth-century …
Domestic spectacles
Society
At first, it looked like the spine of a small animal lying in the long grass out the front of our noon inspection appointment, 2br orig. cond. cottage cls all amenities $550 p/week. “Mouldering” is probably the word: grass had been growing …
Keep calm, buy posters
Society
“Keep Calm and Carry On” the poster orders, its message somewhat at odds with its presentation: white text set in imperious capitals in a distinctively British typeface against a background of panic-button red. You might be familiar with the slogan …
Stockholm syndrome
Culture
Stieg Larsson’s ‘Millennium’ trilogy
