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In Conversation | Hatty Nestor & Nathalie Olah granta.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from granta.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Conflicted by Ian Leslie Discourse, both public and private, is getting worse not better. Where a difference of opinion should be a creative force, now polarisation is the norm. Ian Leslie, as readers of this magazine will know, has a way of bringing fresh perspectives and telling anecdotes to obdurate subjects. Here he talks to everyone from hostage negotiators to divorce lawyers to show how conflict has driven successful companies and technological advances, and to offer ways to harness it in daily life. Faber & Faber, 285pp, £14.99 The Hidden Spring by Mark Solms Drawing on decades of research, the neuropsychologist Mark Solms argues that feelings, not cognition or perception, are the defining feature of consciousness, the source of which he locates not in the grey folds of the cerebral cortex but in the brain stem. Consciousness can be explained solely with reference to natural law – there is no mind independent of the body – which means, Solms contend ....
The best recent poetry – review roundup Rishi Dastidar In The Stone Age (Picador) Shetland-based Jen Hadfield provides a vivid portrait of the landscape of her home, while also showing how neurodiversity can lead to new slants, insights and metaphors when viewing the world. Songs of “Deep Time” jostle with reminders of our transience: “But humankind / are brief, soft // fireworks, prone / to go off at a moment’s / notice”. The landscape is filled with an unexpectedly playful inventiveness, typographical as well as verbal; stones speak, ravens fly upside down as they become ideas, razor clams are buried giants’ fingernails, emotions become bigger in the big country. What’s most captivating is how Hadfield brings sensations to life; subtle and propulsive, her language fizzes and dashes “in little surges like rills of clear pleasure”. The poems more often than not end with a dash, rather than full stops – warm, open invitations to r ....
The Work and the Tradition: Holly Pester on 'Comic Timing' frieze.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from frieze.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.