Niall Harrison Reviews Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
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Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – a 'what if' classic | Francis Spufford
The writer’s alternative history – a thriller set in a 1920s US with a huge and thriving Native American population – underlines the range and power of his imagination
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'One of the great 20th Century experiments': Historian Nikhil Menon on India's central plans
An interview with the author of ‘Planning Democracy: How a Professor, an Institute and an Idea Shaped India.’
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Francis Spufford: 'I'm still angry about what has been done to this country' | Francis Spufford
I May Be Backroom Boys, charting the overlooked achievements of British scientists; the âstrangely noveloidâ Red Plenty, about postwar Soviet economics; and Unapologetic, his lively apologia for religion and riposte to the ânew atheismâ of Richard Dawkins and co. If such an eclectic writer could be said to have a niche, it was to make nerdishness interesting. Then at 52 he published Golden Hill, a glittering take on the 18th-century novel, set in New York, which was the ...
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