Has freedom of speech become a cover for promoting prejudice? Has the concept of political correctness been weaponised to avoid ceding space to those excluded from power? Does white identity politics pose an urgent danger? These are some of the questions at the centre of Nesrine Malik’s radical and compelling analysis that challenges us to find new narrators whose stories can fill the void and unite us behind a shared vision. We Need New Stories aims to challenge six modern myths, ranging from the idea that there is a ‘free speech crisis’ to the argument that ‘identity politics’ is the. Six myths have taken hold, ones which are at odds with our lived experience and in urgent need of revision. I picked up We Need New Stories, British-Sudanese journalist Nesrine Malik’s first non-fiction book, because I like Malik’s Guardian columns and her Twitter discussions. It is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for decades to stave off progressive causes are being exposed as falsehoods. ‘Stares into the heart of our current seething political volcano and gives it a cool hosing down. ‘An acute and nuanced interrogator of contemporary prejudices, Nesrine Malik writes with immense moral courage and intellectual power’ PANKAJ MISHRA An urgent, totally essential book’ SATHNAM SANGHERA

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. Nesrine Maliks new book stares into the heart of our current seething political volcano and gives it a cool hosing down. 9 likes, 0 comments - 5x15 Amsterdam (5x15ams) on Instagram: Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist and the author of We Need New Stories: Challenging the. ‘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. Most of all though, we need this book’ ELIZABETH DAY, author of HOW TO FAIL ‘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.

We need new stories by nesrine malik