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A review by nearit
Livestock by Hannah Berry
4.0
The obvious comparisons for this near future tale of political spin, pop star puppets, and corporate science - Black Mirror, The Thick of It, the occasional political cartoon that isn't a total insult to humanity - are ultimately shown to be timid and unconvinced of their own arguments here.
Everything in Livestock has the same texture, is somehow both glossy and meaty. This is not a mistake but a key part of the book's thesis, and so essential to its insistence on the fact that power's capacity to abuse goes deeper than bad eggs or worse behaviour, that it might be predicated on a view which sees us as somehow lacking in soul.
Everything in Livestock has the same texture, is somehow both glossy and meaty. This is not a mistake but a key part of the book's thesis, and so essential to its insistence on the fact that power's capacity to abuse goes deeper than bad eggs or worse behaviour, that it might be predicated on a view which sees us as somehow lacking in soul.