A Novel to Offend Everyone: Peaceful Quiet Lives
Alex Garland’s new film doesn’t explore the political issues that might trigger a second US civil war, but my 2021 dystopian romance does
A new dystopian thriller out this week, Alex Garland’s Civil War, makes provocative speculation on the horrors of a second internal military conflict in the US. It’s a tense, gripping work, well worth watching, and my full review of the film can be read here. However, whilst Garland portrays the President in a vaguely Trumpian mann…
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