On just one side of the fence, to place it metonymically, we had Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad. On one side sat the Samuel Johnson prize, on the other the Booker. As a consequence, the one point I do not go to fiction for, these times, is amusement. Which is precisely what a person would say of any worthwhile piece of fiction.
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Honestly, file all the Democratic primary underneath Things From Another Dimension. Most of the odder things in these Dream Lands are takeoffs of points of Victorian Britain. Following the 2017 and 2021 parliamentary elections, the most important parties are the centre-right Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn), the Progressive Party (Framsóknarflokkurinn) and the Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð).