A review by red_lemon_diary
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent by Nesrine Malik

5.0

A brilliant and we'll researched book. Each chapter amounted to a cathartic experience reading back what I have often felt but struggled to articulate over the last few years. From political correctness becoming a dirty word to the apparent 'free speech crisis' we're constantly reminded of by white old men in their newspaper columns, Nersine upicks the common arguments made for each myth and makes suggestions for how they can be debunked - very refreshing, when most books like these present a problem and end on 'well, I guess someone will have to sort this out.' Essential reading if we're ever going to get out of the mess that is modern politics.