Editorial Review | “Around the world, both East and West, the insurrectionary fury of militants, zealots and populists has overturned the post-Cold-War global consensus. Where does their rage come from, and where will it end? One of the sharpest cultural critics and political analysts releases his landmark “history of the present” - Boyd Tonkin, Newsweek.“Richly learned and usefully subversive” - John Gray, Literary Review.“A bowel-churning kick in the guts . . . [Pankaj Mishra’s] vision is unusually broad, accommodating and resistant to categorisation. It is the kind of vision the world needs right now . . . Age of Anger is vitally germane to the global expressions of discontent that we are now witnessing” - Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times.“[An] ambitious world history of anti-progressive backlash” - New York.“A disturbing but imperatively urgent analysis” - Bryce Christensen, Booklist (starred review).“A probing, well-informed investigation of global unrest calling for ‘truly transformative thinking’ about humanity’s future” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review).“Scintillating…Age of Anger looks an awful lot like a masterwork. We’re only a few weeks into 2017, but one of the books of the year is already here”- Christopher Bray, The Tablet.“Sensitive and illuminating….Makes a powerful case for the influence of a certain group of anti-rational and anti-commercial ideas which have influenced our world.,..Mishra’s contribution is to show us how these ideas have become ‘viral’ and what that means for all of us” - Jonathan Steinberg, The Spectator.“Incisive…Age of Anger, which was completed after the Brexit vote but before Trump’s victory, reminds us that the dialectical movement between these two poles between a desire to be oneself and a desire to belong to something larger than oneself has been a feature of Western political life since the Enlightenment” - Justin E.H. Smith, Harper’s.“Incisive and scary.. a wake-up call” - Nick Fraser, Observer.An impressively probing and timely work…Highly engaging” - Publishers Weekly (starred review). |