Books: The page of reason
As the world darkened further in 2019, our books offered more perseverance than they did escape
Readers should be sceptical about year-end lists that purport to tell you what to read. There are few things more irrelevant to a volume of fiction and poetry than the year it was published. This is different for non-fiction, but only slightly. Perhaps what any given year does is impact the choices readers make, the books they seek out, the inchoate feelings that they perhaps wish to see reflected back at them
