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100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment

Diagnostic and symptomatic, accusatory and culpable, communal and personal, The Hollow Men is a poem about that which ails society at large.

27.11.2025 20

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Luke Johnson

A dreamscape of transcendental potential: Rhett Davis’ Arborescence is at once terrifying and bewitching

In his thoughtful new novel about people turning into trees, Rhett Davis puts postmodernism and myth through the figurative woodchipper.

27.08.2025 8

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Luke Johnson

‘Ambitious’ or ‘pretentious’? The contested legacy of Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan’s novel is about to hit screens. How do its depictions of heroism and valour land in 2025? And were the raves right – or the pans?

11.04.2025 10

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Luke Johnson