Charlotte Stroud
@char_stroud
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Writer: New Statesman, The Financial Times, The Times, The London Magazine, The Spectator and Engelsberg Ideas. [email protected]
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Joined July 2021
I have an essay in the latest issue of @TheLondonMag on discovering what Thomas Hardy called ‘earth’s secrets’. You can buy it here: https://t.co/BGyQviT40H
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Chomsky against Foucault against Dworkin – who cares? @char_stroud reviews Sophie Ward’s new novel
newstatesman.com
Ideas overpower meaning in Sophie Ward’s packed novel
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‘Whether Dworkin, Rukeyser or Ward like it or not, it is in the sentence we trust. Each one is a foothold, below which lies the abyss of incoherence.’ My review of Sophie Ward’s Our Better Natures for @NewStatesman
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@MortenHoiJensen ’s The Master of Contradictions is a provocation to the present — it shows we have much to learn from Thomas Mann. Not least that democracy, as the only system that affords us the freedom to live with contradictions, must be continually reaffirmed.
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The kind of review you dream of getting. Thank you, @char_stroud and @EngelsbergIdeas
@MortenHoiJensen ’s The Master of Contradictions is a provocation to the present — it shows we have much to learn from Thomas Mann. Not least that democracy, as the only system that affords us the freedom to live with contradictions, must be continually reaffirmed.
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Excellent critic discussing excellent book.
@MortenHoiJensen ’s The Master of Contradictions is a provocation to the present — it shows we have much to learn from Thomas Mann. Not least that democracy, as the only system that affords us the freedom to live with contradictions, must be continually reaffirmed.
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Read Charlotte’s beautiful review for @EngelsbergIdeas of @MortenHoiJensen’s new book on 'The Magic Mountain'. Essential reading for the Thomas Mann-minded.
Thomas Mann’s art of contradiction | @char_stroud
https://t.co/qQsObXB7x4
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D. H. Lawrence: ‘Never trust for one moment any individual who has unmistakable personality.’
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In this wide ranging critical essay on the state of the novel @MarkdeSilva1 asks why “visionary power, so central to earlier generations of leading literary artists, has lost its footing in literary culture, only to be replaced by something closer to “first-person reportage"
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Hear, hear! Wise words from @tomowolade on Zadie Smith’s liberal humanism. We need writers who insist on what Baldwin called “the human riddle,” not mouthpieces for political ideology. @EngelsbergIdeas
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as a list of red flags "Commiting adultery and shirking the washing up" is sound.
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‘The internet, as currently configured, has made language supremely unchewy’ This piece by Archie Cornish on the fashion for flat prose is excellent. https://t.co/3wYesxDVoj
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