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' There's No Such Thing As Too Judgmental' Review Saturday 28 August 2021 – Issue № 188 ‘ There’s no such thing as too judgmental’ — Fran Lebowitz talks to Hadley Freeman ‘For so many years, books were a home for me. I wanted to write the kind Review of story with open arms, Saturday 28 August 2021 – Issue № 188 with room for everyone who might want to come in.’ — Madeline Miller, page 26 Contents The week in books ............................................................................................04 The books that made me by Chris Riddell ....................................................05 COVER STORY Fran Lebowitz talks to Hadley Freeman.........................06 Book of the week: Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth ................................................................................................10 Nonfi ction reviews The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind by Jan Lucassen and The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life: How to Thrive at Work by Leaving Your Emotional Bagg age Behind by Naomi Shragai .................12 Crude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation by James Marriott & Terry Macalister ....................................................13 Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman ............................................14 Strangers on a Pier: A Portrait of a Family by Tash Aw .................................15 Fiction reviews More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman ...............................................16 The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach by Jas Treadwell ................................17 What You Can See from Here by Mariana Leky .............................................17 Children and teenagers’ books of the month .................................................18 INTERVIEW Activist and author Rafi a Zakaria takes on white feminism ...20 BOOKS ESSAY Lara Feigel on her lockdown with DH Lawrence ..............22 INSIDE STORY The mystery of how humans learned to talk .................24 Madeline Miller on writing The Song of Achilles, plus Tom Gauld ............26 COVER PHOTOGRAPH Adrienne Grunwald Saturday 28 August 2021 The Guardian 3 ¶ Forewords that centres the Earth’s ström, managing The week in books sustainability.” director of Moomin Alison Flood Characters , said: 28 August “We have made a long- Read Hour term commitment to launches in UK helping spark a love of An initiative that reading and writing in Future Library In 2114 the trees will encourages people to young people around continues to grow be cut down, and the spend an hour of their the globe .” Lucy Knight The acclaimed Zim bab- works will be printed day reading is coming wean writer Tsitsi on them. Dangarembga, to the UK for the fi rst Dylan Thomas Danga rembga is work- who recently won the time this year. recording on sale ing on a new piece that PEN Pinter prize, said : Launched three A copy of the 1952 will remain unseen “Communicating years ago in Finland, recording of Dylan until 2114. through the project Read Hour is celebrated Thomas that is credited The novelist (pic- with those who will be annually on 8 Septem ber, with launching the tured), whose latest present in a hundred the UN’s inter national audiobook industry in work This Mour nable years’ time is thrilling literacy day. the US is being sold Body was short listed for and a privilege . The offi cial Read Hour by the rare bookseller the Booker prize in 2020, The Future Library will take place between Peter Harrington. has been named as the project perfectly 2pm and 3pm, but any- The recording was eighth author to con- expresses my yearning one unable to take part made by Barbara Hold- tribute to the Future for a human culture can join in at another ridge and Marianne Library project. time. The UK launch will Roney, founders of It was dreamed up be supported by Water- Caedmon Records, by the Scottish artist stones, Macmillan who asked if they could Katie Paterson, and the children’s books and tape a public reading organic artwork is cur- Oxfam, as well as the that Thomas gave in New rently represented by comedian Jennifer York. The resulting LP 1,000 trees, planted in Saunders and children’s went on to sell more the forest near Oslo in authors Cressida Cowell than 400,000 copies. 2014, and a collection and Philip Ardagh. Th is copy, which is of seven manuscripts, Finland’s most inscribed by the Welsh by authors including successful literary poet with the words Margaret Atwood, Karl products, the Moomins, “My name rhymes with Ove Knausg ård and Elif are the “face” of Read villain, I do hope you Shafak, which are being Hour’s international enjoy!!!”, is being sold AARON UFUMELI/APA; ST-IMAGES / ALAMY / ST-IMAGES UFUMELI/APA; AARON held in trust . launch. Roleff Kråk- for £2,750 . AF Chipmageddon WORD OF THE WEEK As if there weren’t enough disasters, people are now speaking of the present Steven Poole “chipmageddon”: the worldwide shortage of micro pro cessors that is aff ecting supplies of everything from toasters and games consoles to cars. A silicon “chip” was thus named in the early 1960s simply because it is a small fl at piece of material, like a chip of wood or stone – or, of course, potato – separated by a cutting action (the verb “chop” is related). In a modern chip factory, a small circular wafer of silicon is divided into many chips, each one holding billions of transistors, which is an improvement on the few thousand possible in the early 70s. The ever-fl exible “-mageddon” suffi x, meanwhile – as in snowmageddon or carmageddon – ultimately takes its form from the Hebrew place name Megiddo in the Book of Revelation’s account of the end of days. Those worried about the climate might not think that a slowdown in the number of new cars being built really counts as the end of the world, but even they might be alarmed by the fact that supply-chain issues recently caused Nando’s to close many of its outlets temporarily. Chipmageddon and chickmageddon? Where will it end ? 4 The Guardian Saturday 28 August 2021 The books that made me ¶ The book that changed my mind ‘Maurice Sendak taught us The Anarchy by William Dalrymple, a comprehensive playfulness could be profound’ history of the East India Company and the despoiling of the Indian subcontinent over four centuries. It Chris Riddell changed the cosy assumptions I was taught at school about the British empire . The last book that made me cry The book I am currently reading Michael Rosen’s Sad Book : a picture book that James Holland’s magnifi cent Sicily ’43, fi lled with chronicles his grief at the death of his son Eddie from fi rst-hand testimonies from private soldiers, meningitis at the age of 19. It is beautifully illustrated generals, future princes and Hollywood movie stars. by the great Quentin Blake and is profoundly moving The book that changed my life and poetic. The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien. It was read to my class by The last book that made me laugh our teacher . I missed the battle of the fi ve armies at The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas the end because I had fl u, so I borrowed the book Adams, which I read in order to illustrate a new from the school library and never looked back. It edition during lockdown. turned me into an avid reader. The book I couldn’t fi nish The book I wish I’d written The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, a novel that is so Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. It is poorly written that it fails to be so bad it is good, and the perfect picture book, as fresh and beguiling now is simply bad. as the day it was written. Sendak taught a generation The book I’m ashamed not to have read of author-illustrators that simplicity and playfulness Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, although I did listen to could also be profound. an unabridged audio book (with more than 20 CDs) The book that most infl uence d my work and loved it. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. As My earliest reading memory a child I was captured by Sir John Tenniel’s illustra- Struggling through the staid adventures of Peter tions . My favourite was the white rabbit staring at his and Jane . I then found a copy of Agaton Sax and the pocket watch. As I copied that drawing, I knew that Diamond Thieves by Nils-Olof Franzén, illustrated I wanted to be an illustrator when I grew up. by Blake, on my teacher’s desk and Peter and Jane The book I think is most underrated were dead to me. Knight’s Fee by Rosemary Sutcliff . I could have chosen any of her magnifi cent historical novels . Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, illustrated JIM HOLDEN/ALAMY JIM Sutcliff is a great stylist . by Chris Riddell, is published by Macmillan. Saturday 28 August 2021 The Guardian 5 ¶ Label ‘ If people disagree with me, so what?’ 6 The Guardian Saturday 28 August 2021 Cover story ¶ In the 1970s when she did write, and wrote hilar- ious, elegant columns for Andy Warhol’s Inter view magazine as well as the best selling books of collected With a hit Netfl ix series essays, Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981), she would hold her own on talkshows, against and The Fran Lebowitz male hosts and guests who demanded to know when she would get married and then off ered to impreg- Reader now published in nate her . Lebowitz, a lesbian , just smiled and smoked her cigarettes. the UK, the American wit One of the leitmotifs in Martin Scorsese’s second and most recent documentary about her, Pretend It’s talks to Hadley Freeman a City, are the shots of a solitary Lebowitz strolling around New York in her distinctive uniform of a long about failing to write, overcoat, Levi’s 501s and loafers, observing every- thing and detached from it all.
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