A fascinating and illuminating read.Īmartya Sen's Identity and Violence (Allen Lane £16.99, pp240) is a brilliant dissection of the enthusiasm on both sides for seeing Islam as an all-engulfing identity. As Kitamura travels across Japan, she reflects on her divided childhood, the country's dynamic popular culture, the buried traumas of Hiroshima and the odd place that Godzilla occupies in the Japanese psyche. Katie Kitamura's Japanese For Travellers (Hamish Hamilton, £15.99, 272pp) is a travelogue, an interior journey and a cultural exploration, yet its core is an examination of the problems of a Japanese woman brought up in California. The book is written with an intelligent brio that is in contrast to its material. Part of the satisfaction of grazing through this compendium is not needing to undertake any of the activities within. I urge all thinking - or, for safety's sake, unthinking - women to buy a copy. I am not sure that the audience of 211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do by Tom Cutler (Harper Collins £10.99, pp288) is, as its author claims, boys of 16 to 106.
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