Is It Tomorrow Yet?
  • Published: 2 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241483459
  • Imprint: Allen Lane
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $22.99

Is It Tomorrow Yet?

Paradoxes of the Pandemic

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2 Feb 2021
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29 Oct 2020
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20 Sep 2022
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One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it

'We are able to imagine anything because we are being besieged by something that was considered unimaginable...'

Beneath the panic and bluster, beneath the confusing speeches and the conflicting advice, the Coronavirus pandemic acted, changing our world in the most profound ways. The tragic human cost and the economic devastation will be assessed and calculated for decades to come. But the pandemic also changed things in ways that are less easily expressed and understood. It has made bare the frayed contradictions of modern life. It has distorted things that seemed simple and settled. It has affirmed plain, uncomfortable truths.

In this brilliant, thought-provoking essay, Ivan Krastev, one of our most interesting thinkers today, explores the pandemic's immediate consequences and conceives of its long-term legacy. What will change for the young and for the old? Will things be different for the communities most harmed, and for those who escaped the worst? Where are we now with the US and China, with the UK and Europe? And how do we think our way through the unthinkable?
  • Published: 2 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241483459
  • Imprint: Allen Lane
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for Is It Tomorrow Yet?

Few people question the conventional wisdom like Ivan Krastev

George Soros

One of the great European minds of today

Timothy Snyder

Ivan Krastev is one of Europe's leading thinkers

Madeleine Albright

Characteristically thought-provoking ... Krastev's take - from the impact of globalisation and democracy to our sense of 'home' and trust - makes for sobering reading

Financial Times, Books of the Year

Elegant and beautifully turned ... this book is daring and challenging in its prognostications - full of sparkling turns of thought, and magical phrasing. Krastev is evidently a natural-born teacher and essayist

Robert Fox, Reaction

A good primer for the first post-pandemic, post-Brexit dinner party. . . big ideas in small doses that are sufficiently intriguing to impress companions but not offend either nationalists or globalists

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