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Articles by Karen Shook
MP and editor of Reading the Riot Act: Reflections on the 2011 Urban Disorders in England on suburbia, the Famous Five, and the overlap between politics and academia
Spain’s Left turn, legible ethnography, the Arab Spring’s bodies of evidence and Walter Benjamin’s Wunderkammer: must-read monographs
Musician and author of Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and The Dream of Freedom on Poe, silence and rock novels
The author of A Taste for Provence on The Secret Garden, de Tocqueville’s travels in America and maternal pride
The author of The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works on the delights of Just William, serendipity and Victorian self-help books
The author of Justice Across Boundaries: Whose Obligations? on Swallows and Amazons, W.B. Yeats and reading Henry Kissinger and Immanuel Kant
Just deserts, theatres of war, hearting Hayek and the best lust-free years of your life: must-read academic books
The author of The Cultural Revolution: A People's History 1962-1976 on dictators and survivors, Dostoevsky and Pushkin, and narrative, truth and fiction
Edtech unhyped, Nigerian noir, hard-bodied prose and squaring heavens above with those urges below: must-read academic books
The author of Speculative Blackness on Star Trek and race, fan fiction and graphic novels, and life-changing works by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Ray Bradbury
Tudor shades of emotional grey, China's 'overquota' generation, pithy philosophy and 1930s London's electric dreams: unmissable scholarly books
The economist and polymath on A. N. Wilson and Isaiah Berlin, mushy peas and sisterly libertarianism, and all those books as yet unread and unwritten
Dutch goddesses, the tragedy of the commons, Justin Trudeau’s dad and putting what’s left of the UK’s family silver to good use: must-read academic titles
The leading geographer talks to Karen Shook about how to learn from your audience and help build a better politics too
The eminent legal scholar on Simone de Beauvoir, the trouble with lawyers, female friendship and living unhappily ever after
Xenophobia new and old, questionable inflections, Paris' jazz diasporas and life on the skin of the Earth: must-read scholarly titles
The medical anthropologist and editor of Metrics: What Counts in Global Health on New Orleans and Katrina, Naomi Klein and Dave Eggers, Ayn Rand and Ursula K. LeGuin
Epistolary adventures from Lincoln to Louisa May Alcott, universities v courts, and hard times and hope in Stoke-on-Trent: must-read scholarly titles
Sunil Khilnani, author of Incarnations: India in 50 Lives, on his wife Katherine Boo's worldwide success, the wisdom of C.L.R. James and R. G. Collingwood, and the 'deliciously bad ends' of Struwwelpeter
Latin the really old-school way, unknown Indian masters and the human rights year in review: must-read scholarly titles
The political economist and author of Will Africa Feed China? on George Orwell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and mountain-climbing, wine-drinking Tang Dynasty poets
New titles for your to-read list: the law and transgender, world history redux, quantum bananas and eldritch otherworlds
The eminent anthropologist on Gielgud, T. S. Eliot, the big blind spots of big data, and a very tatty copy of Marx’s Grundrisse
From Eva Perón's earthly remains to Taksim Square stray dogs and disability seen from the Left: academic titles worth adding to your reading list
