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How do you satirise a self‑satirising society? Jordan Prosser gives it a go

In Blue Giant, a reality TV trip-to-Mars novel, Jordan Prosser proves he’s a dazzlingly brilliant wordsmith – but is he too clever by half?

17.08.2026 20

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Luke Johnson

100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment

Diagnostic and symptomatic, accusatory and culpable, communal and personal, The Hollow Men is a poem about that which ails society at large.

27.11.2025 30

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Luke Johnson

A dreamscape of transcendental potential: Rhett Davis’ Arborescence is at once terrifying and bewitching

In his thoughtful new novel about people turning into trees, Rhett Davis puts postmodernism and myth through the figurative woodchipper.

27.08.2025 20

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Luke Johnson