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‘When I was nineteen the whole world flashed around my ears, all my false standards of values crumbled, everything that I had been sure of - the touch and quality of stone, the meaning of eating and sleeping and suffering, the texture of civilisation, all collapsed and left me in darkeness. The world no longer existed. I was dead in some nightmarish way. . .’

–Emanuel Litvinov to his younger brother Barnet, 9 July 1940.

Expanded paperback editions of my first two books will be published by Oxford University Press on 26 February 2009.
 
On Living in an Old Country will contain the original text plus an introduction reviewing the argument about ‘the heritage industry’ that followed first publication in 1985. Also included is ‘Sneering at the Theme Parks’, a conversation on […]