Nina Power
@Nina_Power_
Writer: Courage, Spectator, The Telegraph, The Critic Tutor: Theory Underground, Verdurin Podcasts: The Lack, Sublation Media CIDAC Commissioner
“This is the Blake of the imagination, of re-enchantment, innocence, openness and of Christianity” — @Nina_Power_ reviews Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination, by Mark Vernon thecritic.co.uk/issues/july-20…
Enormously proud that an extract from my play "Civil War" came third in the marvellous @thebasecreates competition, Agon II, in Hackney last night! Truly an honour to see my words performed by such excellent actors to a vibrant and packed room.
come to @marsreviewer’s uk book launch at @verdur_in ☄️ tickets for the last event sold out fast so book early to avoid disappointment verdur.in/event/stop-all…
Whatever happened to the slogan "Broken Britain"? I suppose we've moved on to "Catastrophic Entropic Screaming Maw of Collapse Britain" now, but still.
My review of Mark Vernon's @platospodcasts delightful new book on William Blake is now online @TheCriticMag
“Vernon’s background as an Anglican priest and a psychotherapist renders him a highly sensitive and sympathetic reader of Blake” — @Nina_Power_ reviews Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination, by Mark Vernon thecritic.co.uk/issues/july-20…
Great event with @thephilippics at @verdur_in last night, discussing Phil's new book The National Interest: Politics After Globalization. Serious and optimistic discussion about what happens post-globalisation, and how sovereignty and nation-building can be reforged.
Had a conversation with @Nina_Power_ about iconoclasm, relations between men & women, modern complexity, and other crimes of noticing. Check it out🔗👇
To paraphrase de Beauvoir, freedom is the freedom to make mistakes and be unhappy. If anything, contemporary women's misery is feminism's final victory.
Thus you get endless, navel-gazing NYT op-eds about "heterofatalism" etc etc., as women try to do the impossible—understand why they're unhappy, but maintain their feminist intellectual framework.