The Message

The MessageIn his keenly anticipated new book, The Message, he explores the urgent question of how our stories our reporting, imaginative narratives and mythmaking both expose and distort our realities. Travelling to three resonant sites of conflict, he illuminates how the stories we tell as well as the ones we dont work to shape us. The first of the books three main parts finds Coates on his inaugural trip to Africa a journey to Dakar, where he finds himself in

he explores the urgent question of how our stories – our reporting

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The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House

intelligence agencies and corporations to understand how we got here

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and in a digital era where everyone has the agency to voice their own opinions

Guevara and Alberto Granado set off on the 500cc Norton they nicknamed La Poderosa ('The Powerful One') with no other agenda than a lust for life and a desire to see it all

“Landscape with Icarus” examines how and why children go missing

Poems of the Masters was compiled during the Sung dynasty (960-1278)