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Best of times, worst of times: Does the credit crunch have a silver lining for literature?
Published January 8, 2009, 4:27 pm, Independent
It hardly sounds like the prelude to a literary revolution. Under a hard-as-nails free-market government, old industries sicken and die at a pandemic rate. Unemployment rockets; inflation spikes as well. As public spending plummets, riots break out on decrepit city streets. Rancour and rage dominate the public realm, twisted up another notch when a skin-saving foreign war polarises an ...
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