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PETER POMERANTSEV has written for London Review of Books, Newsweek, Le Monde Diplomatique, El Pais and Internationale. Apart from media, he has worked as a consultant for the EU and the World Bank on development projects in Russia. His first book, Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible (2015), was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, and won the RSL Ondaatje Prize. @peterpomeranzev
01/08/19
This Is Not Propaganda
Coventry Rachel Cusk
Peter Pomerantsev
A series of essays from Rachel Cusk – about choices, womanhood and art.
Adventures in the War Against Reality In his signature style – analytical, poetic, lurid and funny – the award-winning author takes us behind enemy lines in the multinational information war. Perhaps the most important global trend of the last few years has been the rise – and transformation – of information warfare. In the digital age, military engagement matters less than how it is broadcast. The result is a constant deluge of lies, absurdity and fear-mongering. Peter Pomerantsev learns about the tactics of protesters in Serbia, narco-warlords in Mexico, Fox News hosts in America, and the KGB officer who forced his own family into exile. Taking in these surreal yet important lessons, ultimately Pomerantsev looks to the future, asking how we might navigate this new reality and what a better form of democracy might look like.
After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos – in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction – this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a selection of non-fiction that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life’s work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism, with pieces on gender, politics and writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg, this collection is essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, both startling and rewarding to behold. ‘Cusk is always an exciting writer: striking and challenging, with a distinctive cool prose voice, and behind that coolness something untamed and full of raw force . . . ’ Tessa Hadley
RACHEL CUSK is the author of the trilogy Outline, Transit, Kudos; the memoirs A Life’s Work, The Last Supper and Aftermath; and several other novels: Saving Agnes (winner of the Whitbread Award), The Temporary, The Country Life (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Lucky Ones, In the Fold, Arlington Park and The Bradshaw Variations. She was chosen as one of Granta’s 2003 Best Young British Novelists. She has been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize three times, most recently for Kudos.
05/09/19 HB | 978 0 571 35044 5 | 256pp | £14.99
TPB | 978 0 571 33863 4 | 300pp | £14.99
Ebook | 978 0 571 35046 9
Ebook | 978 0 571 33865 8
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