December
declares the year’s best reads. *‘Convenient Truth’ (DroneClone) is a timely
meditation on how politics makes up the science it prefers. Why worry about the
sky falling when you have your own verandah? asked the Environment Minister
this year. Naomi Klein rebuts all such facetious rhetoric. *‘Veranda or
Verandah?’ (Picador) asks Julian Barnes in essays about the places we do our
reading. Audrey Hepburn read by moonlight, Buzz Aldrin on the moon. Barnes
arranges his home with as many ‘brown studies’ as possible. *‘Tiffin’ (Viking
Penguin) is Vikram Seth’s surprise crime outing, all set on one verandah, one
afternoon.
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