On the shelves

Editor, author and strategist Cliff Kuang will be in New Zealand for the Auckland Writers Festival (see facing page). Here, he explores the books currently on his shelves. For a full reading list, visit urbismagazine.com Pulphead John Jeremiah Sullivan, 2011 Sullivan has managed to see the world in an entirely original way. His book opens your mind to the possibility of what’s been hiding in plain sight. It helps you see things once again in maximum texture, as it is when you travel to a new country. In this essay collection, Sullivan calls America – which made us both – a “vast and blood-soaked jigsaw puzzle”, which seems exactly right. Our culture is a mix of awful history, high-flown values, numbing consumerism and surprising grace. Sullivan’s able to see that…

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Urbis (Digital) - 1 Issue, April - May 2020

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