When the regular mechanisms of political narration break down, there is a need for something stranger: liminal writing for liminal times.
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When the regular mechanisms of political narration break down, there is a need for something stranger: liminal writing for liminal times.
Few things I’ve written have been more widely read than this blogpost from the morning after the UK general election of 2015.
As shadows lengthen over our whole way of living, we may once more be in need of the kind of storytelling that stalks truths so monstrous they turn our minds to stone if looked at straight on.