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“... not the horrific news that we’ve been experiencing constantly and relentlessly since March,’ Brit Bennett said of her new novel. The Vanishing Half came out a week after George Floyd was choked to death on a Minneapolis sidewalk; the novel itself begins weeks after Martin Luther King was assassinated in April 1968, and concerns twin girls who saw ...”

“... are following a well-trodden path, and all they have proved is that no one brings out the Brit in the British journalist quite like Gerry ...”

“... for example. This is the real trouble with Conservatism: its identity-bedrock has dissolved. Old-Brit nostalgia has found for itself a kind of foreign country, the one where things were done differently. Tories are as little at home there as anybody else. The past turns out to have been institutional in character, and not, as so often thought, an aspect of ...”

“... of her giant set, avidly surfing the Internet for seven or eight hours a day. She’s got her ‘Brit Group’ to talk to – a gang of elderly ex-pats who maintain a busy online chatroom about the doings of the Royal Family and how to find Marmite in Kansas – as well as a small legion of Martha Stewartish arts and crafts sites that she checks out ...”