
David Shariatmadari
@d_shariatmadari
Literary editor at The Guardian covering non fiction, formerly opinion editor. Wrote a book about how language works: Don't Believe A Word. I don't post here.
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"It is the collapse of empires and rise of nations that breeds intolerance," argues Pratinav Anil in his review of Charlotte Lydia Riley's new history of empire in modern Britain theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

'Refreshingly in our data-worshipping age, Sumpter insists that mere facts are not everything' - Steven Poole reviews David Sumpter's Four Ways of Thinking theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

'Were you to invite them all to dinner you would need an impossibly varied menu (salmon, seal, insects, bamboo, honey) and impractical seating arrangements (a sun bear may weigh 60lb; a grizzly, 600lb)' – Ed Posnett on the bears in Gloria Dickie's new book theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

'Hester visits Forster's room at King’s College and finds it is now a mundane space with a football table and Ikea sofa' - Brian Dillon reviews Diarmuid Hester's new study of seven queer lives theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

This week's Big Idea is about why it's good to fail - mostly. By Amy Edmondson theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

"Beautifully researched and deeply moving, her account brought me to tears more than once" -John Simpson' powerful review of Larisa Brown's book about the western withdrawal from Afghanistan and its aftermath theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…



"He exposes the absurdity of the claims of some Brexiters that leaving the European single market would reduce bureaucracy and red tape, and promote free trade" - Jonathan Portes reviews Peter Foster's Brexit post-mortem theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

I spoke to Mustafa Suleyman about how he went from selling smoothies in Camden to co-founding the world's most advanced AI research outfit - oh, and whether we can stop technology from destroying civilisation as we know it theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…


"At the very core of effective altruist thought is an attempt to recognise our painful reality for what it is" - in a rare original essay for the Guardian, William MacAskill sets out his store theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

The brilliant Gary Shteyngart reviews Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…





