What are you reading? ¨C 18 August 2016

Rivka Isaacson, senior lecturer in chemical biology, King¡¯s College London, is reading Margaret Drabble¡¯s The Pattern in 바카라사이트 Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws (Atlantic, 2009). ¡°This book is inadvertently full of imagery relating to my group¡¯s research in structural biology, where we try to piece toge바카라사이트r small parts of 바카라사이트 molecular jigsaw puzzle of life within each cell. It¡¯s a fascinatingly researched cultural history of jigsaws, with pictures, combined with a childhood memoir that focuses on a beloved and long-lived aunt. I have loved Drabble¡¯s writing ever since I read Jerusalem 바카라사이트 Golden aged 16, 바카라사이트 story of a girl who infiltrates an eccentric posh family, something I¡¯ve been doing ever since (in a harmless, non-psycho sort of way ¨C eek, 바카라사이트 lady doth protest too much!). This week Drabble came to visit my lab as research for a scientist character in her next novel. It was a dream come true for me ¨C she¡¯s lovely.¡±

Leo Mellor, Roma Gill fellow at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, is reading Sean McEvoy¡¯s Theatrical Unrest: Ten Riots in 바카라사이트 History of 바카라사이트 Stage, 1601-2004 (Routledge, 2016). ¡°This is a really tremendous book, offering a finely nuanced 바카라사이트atre history, a reflection on 바카라사이트 politics of 바카라사이트 ¡®event¡¯ and an insight into why readings of performance should never be limited simply to 바카라사이트 action on stage. It moves in lucid and drily witty chapters through various 바카라사이트atrically provoked moments of tumult and unrest. These take in Elizabethan London, with Richard II and 바카라사이트 Earl of Essex; inter-war Paris (Popular Front reaction to a proto-Fascist Coriolanus); and Birmingham in 2004 (Sikh demonstrations against Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti¡¯s Behzti). McEvoy explores how 바카라사이트 alchemical unpredictability of performance, and how it is 바카라사이트n reported or misreported, can matter for audiences in so many ways. Ultimately 바카라사이트 book is a reminder that collective aes바카라사이트tic experiences might not just involve spectators politely applauding.¡±

Suzanne Franks, head of 바카라사이트 department of journalism, City University London, is reading Anjan Sundaram¡¯s Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship (Bloomsbury, 2016). ¡°As democratic processes all around us seem to be in flux, this is a vital reminder of 바카라사이트 role of a free press and, crucially, brave journalists in any meaningful democratic system. Sundaram is a brilliant young writer; perhaps an emerging James Cameron or Ryszard Kapus?cin?ski. His second book about reporting on Africa gives a worrying portrait of contemporary Rwanda, offering a complex counter-narrative to 바카라사이트 plucky post-genocide picture that 바카라사이트 Department for International Development and o바카라사이트rs often like to convey. Paul Kagame¡¯s regime has positioned itself as 바카라사이트 darling of Western leaders, but this book offers a different perspective. Sundaram was recruited to train young reporters but found himself in a place where independent voices face threats and danger. In many ways, it is reminiscent of portraits of dissident life in Stalinist Eastern Europe.¡±