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The Good Immigrant Is Ten (opens the original)
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‘The Good Immigrant’, the landmark essay collection I edited turns ten today. We are celebrating it with a sparkling new reissue edition, as it becomes one of Canongate’s The Canons, one of the most important books in British literature. Featuring essays by Riz Ahmed, Himesh Patel, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Nish Kumar, Bim Adewunmi and so many more legends. All of them legends, icons, brilliant thinkers, makers, writers, creators. All heroes of mine.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="http
What Are We Going To Do? (opens the original)
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It felt preposterous to write a post about ‘The Good Immigrant’ being reissued this week when there is a new racist platform, led by Danny Tommo, Tommy Robinson’s best mate, called Patriot Platform who have in the last few days engaged hundreds of masked racists to shut down Dover and Portsmouth. Somewhere between hate-spewing vigilante and racist-who-doesn’t-really-understand-the-Punisher, they decided, almost without warning or much intervention from the police, to try and stop people who had
A Bunch Of Things I Read This Summer (opens the original)
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These are some books I have read this summer, and finished and enjoyed, for you to enjoy. The link to buy is my affiliate link with bookshop.org. If you buy from them, they profit-share with independent bookshops, and I get a little bit of money too.<source type="i
Mad Villain issue #2 is here! (opens the original)
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Friends, fiends and fascism-fighters, welcome to issue #2 of our morality tale. Middle-aged dad of two Sanjay’s existential crisis about rising racism in his city has led him to join antifa. However, before he can sign up to the cause, he needs to go through an initiation.<source type="
Brand New Viewing (opens the original)
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In preparation for ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’, which would be the first Spidey I took my kids to the cinema to watch, a big ol event in the Shukla household, we decided to work our way through the Tom Holland-era Spidey films. Cos Marvel is homework and every film is set up and pay-off for a bunch of other stuff, and surely the point of saga is that ea… Read more
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