Modest and Misunderstood
Ferdinand Mount: Wretched Strangers, 24 September 2026
Think of England: Nation, People and Race in the English Imagination
by Paul Kléber Monod.
Cambridge, 396 pp., £35, February,978 1 009 65229 2 Show More
by Paul Kléber Monod.
Cambridge, 396 pp., £35, February,
The Shortest History of Migration
by Ian Goldin.
Old Street, 272 pp., £9.99, March 2025,978 1 913083 73 1 Show More
by Ian Goldin.
Old Street, 272 pp., £9.99, March 2025,
Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
by Ece Temelkuran.
Canongate, 256 pp., £11.99, April,978 1 83726 204 5 Show More
by Ece Temelkuran.
Canongate, 256 pp., £11.99, April,
“... and impotent.Those who survive the crossing and gain asylum are expected to show gratitude. As Ece Temelkuran puts it, ‘even before I begin, the fear of appearing as yet another whining exile demanding recognition fractures my dignity.’ Temelkuran is a political exile who has chosen not to go back to ... ”
