“How to write about these scoundrel times? WH Auden dubbed the 1940s ‘the age of anxiety’, but it feels a better term for now than then. … Hard times can generate great writing, but they can also freeze the imagination in a rictus of fear.”
“How to write about these scoundrel times? WH Auden dubbed the 1940s ‘the age of anxiety’, but it feels a better term for now than then. … Hard times can generate great writing, but they can also freeze the imagination in a rictus of fear.”