The best of times?
With only a day to go before the Booker longlist is released, Jason Cowley argues in The Guardian that this is “the richest year for contemporary British and Commonwealth fiction since the launch of the Booker Prize in 1969.” Arguing against criticism that fiction has been unable to address the complexities of life post-9/11, Cowley writes: “The evidence from the new novels I have read so far this year is quite the contrary — our writers have not allowed the extremity of 11 September and the wars that have followed to silence or defeat them; their imaginations seem far from meagre.”
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