Issue No.
30
December 2009
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| Welcome to December’s review |
 Tim Black
In this issue of the spiked review of books, the last of 2009, we have Mick Hume on Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler’s fictional detective and flawed ‘man of honour’. We need the likes of Marlowe more than ever, argues Hume, to put our morally mixed-up world to rights. We also have Sean Collins on an insightful new expose of the panic and near hysteria that defined the reaction of America’s political and economic leaders to the recession. Jennie Bristow reviews a provocative new book that explores how official suspicion of adults and the modern-day mantra that ‘children never lie’ has created a minefield of abuse accusations in British schools. Rob Lyons revisits his hometown of Birmingham, through a new picture book on the Second City, and finds that it is not such a soulless place after all. We also have Nathalie Rothschild on Philip Roth, me on the demise of EastEnders, Michael Cook on Scrooge the Malthusian, and more. Enjoy! (spiked is away until 4 January. Happy new year.) |
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