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I started blogging for the Kenyon Review in February 2016, so with this blog post, I’ve officially surpassed the five-year mark. Five years! That’s how long it took to build the Hagia Sophia, which is a humbling thought. On the other hand, my tenure on this blog both predates and outlived the Trump administration, so I’ll take that as a win. You can read my first post, a rumination on Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels and my own drifting friendship, here. In the years since, I’ve written about everything from watching a total eclipse to memorializing a writing teacher to signing w...

Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera / Viking Several authors tackle colonialism in very different ways, from Alex Renton confronting his own family’s involvement in slavery in Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Enslaving Past (Canongate), and Sathnam Sanghera in Kehinde Andrews, who rather more controversially takes on capitalism and racism together in The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World (Allen Lane). Gender and Identity Politics Likewise gender and identity politics get a good look-in, from  Julie Bindel’s manifesto, Feminism for Women (Consta...