Salman Rushdie proposed that there seem to be 'hinge moments' in history, when many crucial changes take place at much the same time. But what are the forces that create change? Recorded at the 2022 Stratford Festival, The Shock of the New is a series of panel discussions about five years that have profoundly shaped the modern world.
Yoko Tawada and Margaret Mitsutani's Scattered All Over the Earth is one of ten titles longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature.