Joanna Kavenna
Winner of the Orange First Novel prize for Inglorious.
Winner of the Orange First Novel prize, Joanna Kavenna’s works include A Field Guide to Reality, The Ice Museum and Inglorious. Her journalism has appeared in the London Review of Books, The Guardian, and the New York Times.
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Winner of the Orange First Novel prize, Joanna Kavenna’s works include A Field Guide to Reality, The Ice Museum and Inglorious. Her journalism has appeared in the London Review of Books, The Guardian, and the New York Times.
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In Search Of Ourselves
Is self-discovery a desirable and vital goal?
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Naming and shaming
Do we need shame for social progress?
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The End of the Theory of Everything
Can we fully describe reality?
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Creativity and freedom
Should there be limits on creative freedom?
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The Word and the World
What are the limits of language?
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Beyond the Machine
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The Key to Creativity
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Truth and the Universe
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The Prejudice of Facts
Are there no facts, only interpretations?
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Fantasies and Lies
Are myths dangerous?
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The New Romantics
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Beyond Reality
What are the limits of our understanding?
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The Dance of Time
Is the present an illusion?
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True to Myself
Morality, virtues & consequences
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Visions of Apocalypse
Is the end always nigh?
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A Field Guide to Reality
Overcoming the tyranny of realism in literature
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Live Fast, Die Young
Should we take more risks?
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Awake in the Universe
Art's ability to raise us from slumbers
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Paradise City
Can we build better metropoles?
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Error, Lies and Adventure Part 2
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The Famine and the Feast
Why are we obsessed with food scarcity?
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How To Change the World
Arts power to pack political clout is clear. But is this a reduction of great art?
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The unsayable
Can language adequately capture reality?
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The happiness delusion
In search of the aim of life
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Trash, trends and the transcendent
Has culture lost sight of the sublime?
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Taking leave of reason
Is rationality as vital as we thought?
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Dangerous desires
Must we adopt a new attitude to social drugs?
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The True and the Trivial
Can comedy convey profound ideas?
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Your true self
Is the idea of an authentic self a fundamental mistake?
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The world that disappeared
Can we be sure there is a physical reality?
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Metropolis Untamed
Tech giants on collision course with democracy
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Creativity and freedom
Should there be limits on creative freedom?
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The trauma of everyday
Have mundane setbacks become catastrophic?
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The return of the Colosseum
The morality of salacious entertainment
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Naming and shaming
Do we need shame for social progress?
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Moral facts and moral fantasy
Is our search for an objective morality misguided?
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Metaphysics, morality and mayhem
Which theories should we prioritise?
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Language, animals and us
The uniqueness of human language
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The good and the evil
Can we make ultimate moral judgements?