We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent - Hardcover

An acute and nuanced interrogator of contemporary prejudices, Nesrine Malik writes with immense moral courage and intellectual power (PANKAJ MISHRA)

Nesrine Malik writes with urgent eloquence about the world we live in, applying her brilliant mind to some of the most important debates of our age. She's right: we do need new stories. Most of all though, we need this book (ELIZABETH DAY)

We live in confusing and chaotic times - an age where the values many took for granted are being questioned, where universal rights are being casually denied. WE NEED NEW STORIES is the first book I've read that makes sense of where we are, and of what we will lose if we don't wake up. An urgent, totally essential book (SATHNAM SANGHERA)

Nesrine Malik's new book stares into the heart of our current seething political volcano and gives it a cool hosing down. With careful analysis and a great historian's expertise for synthesising a huge amount of information into a clear arc, she engages in a powerful and persuasive debunking exercise (Bidisha GUARDIAN)

WE NEED NEW STORIES is a plea for greater diversity and essential reading, at a time when politics is so divisive, for anyone with an interest in current or social affairs (Lucy Whetman THE i NEWSPAPER)

A rigorous study of our predicament . . . An expansive, structural interrogation of the status quo that draws on a wealth of research and interviews (Helen Charman GUARDIAN)

[Malik] presents her case persuasively, with admirable clarity, and in doing so cuts through a lot of the messy, often befuddling noise. Clear, accessible . . . well-researched and thorough (Rachel Andrews IRISH TIMES)