RaveThe GuardianTo say that Maria Tumarkin’s essay collection scrutinises our ideas about history and the past is inadequate. This book rips into our pieties, interrogates our easy platitudes and forces us to see the world – words, things, people, feelings – in new ways ... Each essay in the collection takes an axiom about history and tests it against our gritty present day realities ... Facing all this would not be possible without Tumarkin’s sonorous wisdom; her capacity to turn things, words, people, sentences over on the page to see what they’re made of. Lucid and grave, this book is a revelation.
