We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent - Hardcover

Malik, Nesrine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474610404 ISBN 13: 9781474610407

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019

Synopsis

It is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for decades to stave off progressive causes are being exposed as falsehoods. Six myths have taken hold, ones which are at odds with our lived experience and in urgent need of revision.

Has freedom of speech become a cover for promoting prejudice? Has the concept of political correctness been weaponised to avoid ceding space to those excluded from power? Does white identity politics pose an urgent danger? These are some of the questions at the centre of Nesrine Malik's radical and compelling analysis that challenges us to find new narrators whose stories can fill the void and unite us behind a shared vision.

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Review:

An acute and nuanced interrogator of contemporary prejudices, Nesrine Malik writes with immense moral courage and intellectual power (PANKAJ MISHRA)

Nesrine Malik writes with urgent eloquence about the world we live in, applying her brilliant mind to some of the most important debates of our age. She's right: we do need new stories. Most of all though, we need this book (ELIZABETH DAY)

We live in confusing and chaotic times - an age where the values many took for granted are being questioned, where universal rights are being casually denied. WE NEED NEW STORIES is the first book I've read that makes sense of where we are, and of what we will lose if we don't wake up. An urgent, totally essential book (SATHNAM SANGHERA)

Book Description:

A radical and thought-provoking polemic which examines the foundational myths at the centre of current culture wars

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1474610404
• ISBN 13: 9781474610407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304