Zia Haider Rahman

Zia Haider Rahman is a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and the author of the novel In the Light of What We Know. (January 2018)

Not Another Brexit Jeremiad

The sociological explanation for why I now feel closer to Britain might be that by confronting all Britons with this variety of native British identities, Brexit has created space for other British identities.

March 28, 2019

The Assault on Reason

Whataboutism is only a deflection. But it succeeds as a political strategy because not everyone grasps the irrelevance; not everyone understands the importance of good reasoning.

January 15, 2018

The Novelist’s Complicity

Today, reading has strong competition from screens. If novelists are relinquishing the very things that are exclusively the province of the novel, then they are complicit in the demise of the novel.

January 5, 2018

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