New Statesman - <![CDATA[John Gray]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/john_gray en <![CDATA[The Man in the High Castle]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/10/world-dick-human-japan-fiction http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/10/world-dick-human-japan-fiction Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:46:12 GMT John Gray

]]> <![CDATA[Uncivilisation: the Dark Mountain Manifesto]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/09/civilisation-planet-authors http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/09/civilisation-planet-authors Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:56:52 GMT John Gray We have, it seems, led the planet into the age of ecocide. Can civilisation survive the unavoidable environmental catastrophe? To stand a chance we will need cool heads, not fiery dreams.

]]> <![CDATA[The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/08/communism-communist-soviet http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/08/communism-communist-soviet Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:07:15 GMT John Gray Western progressives nostalgic for the Soviet Union shouldn’t get too excited by the global financial crisis, writes John Gray. A fine new history of communism shows why

]]> <![CDATA[Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/07/garton-ash-world-facts http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/07/garton-ash-world-facts Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:37:36 GMT John Gray The “historian of the present” Timothy Garton Ash claims to look at the world with unflinching honesty. But he is not facing facts

]]> <![CDATA[When China Rules the World]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/2009/06/western-world-china-state http://www.newstatesman.com/2009/06/western-world-china-state Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:51:20 GMT John Gray It is clear that the rise of China marks the end of western global hegemony, but just what the coming Chinese ascendency will look like is another matter.

]]> <![CDATA[God Is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Is Changing the World]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/05/religion-american-modern-world http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/05/religion-american-modern-world Thu, 21 May 2009 11:37:48 GMT John Gray Contrary to what evangelical rationalists preach, it is perfectly possible both to be modern and to believe in God. But there is no reason to assume that the American religious model will prevail

]]> <![CDATA[Appreciation: J G Ballard]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/04/ballard-work-life-world http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/04/ballard-work-life-world Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:45:44 GMT John Gray His writings were a lifelong experiment in imaginative alchemy, the transmutation of senseless dross into visions of beauty

]]> <![CDATA[After the gold rush]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/04/global-crisis-china-banking http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/04/global-crisis-china-banking Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:45:44 GMT John Gray The spree is over, the global economy is in ruins and our political masters are in disarray. Make no mistake, writes John Gray, the neoliberal era is over – but at what cost?

]]> <![CDATA[A difficult business]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/04/bourgeois-life-work-botton http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/04/bourgeois-life-work-botton Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:15:33 GMT John Gray The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Alain de Botton Hamish Hamilton, 336pp, £18.99

]]> <![CDATA[The book that changed my life ]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/02/norman-cohn-john-gray-world http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/02/norman-cohn-john-gray-world Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:09:52 GMT John Gray John Gray chooses The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn

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