Thursday 1 March 2012

China Mieville's London

China Mieville has written an interesting essay about modern London for The New York Times, touching on the recent riots, the increasingly desperate housing shortage and the impact of the upcoming Olympic Games on the city. It's a bleak, but not totally hopeless, piece.

The highlight for me is Mieville's depiction of mayor Boris Johnson as a "ninja of bumptiousness."

2 comments:

Varan said...

wow this guy knows nothing about london

Anonymous said...

Well he has lived in London his whole life...