Said’s account of the traumatic national encounter of the Palestinian people with Zionism is still as pertinent and incisive today as it was on first publication in 1979
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class and politics through the subversion and (mis)appropriation of branding
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Ian Nairn: Nairn's London lithographic Said’s account of the traumaticPenguin Classics, 2014, softcover, 368 pages, 11 x 18 cm Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation on a city and its buildings. Including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty seven different pubs, it is a portrait of the soul of a place, from a writer of genius.