RUDE I had the good fortune earlier this week to be visited here in Rome by an ex-student who was brought up in Nigeria and has been working on a novel set there. I’ve only read the beginning of the book and have been unable to read more. (At the moment I can’t read much because

Of course children aren't reading for pleasure anymore. We've spent a decade sanitising literature, feeding kids politicised, socially progressive drivel. It's not shocking they've stopped reading it. Short🧵on what's happened to publishing