Can Utopia survive 2017?

Published: Nov. 23, 2017, midnight

b'With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi \\u2013 500-plus years since Thomas More coined the term \\u201cUtopia\\u201d, denoting a too-good-to-be-true land, Chlo\\xeb Houston considers the relevance, and importance, of Utopian thinking, and asks if we feel more at home in dystopia; prompted by a magisterial new biography by Jonathan Eig, J. Michael Lennon describes the transformation of Cassius Clay into Muhammad Ali (and tells us what it was like to meet Ali at Normal Mailer\\u2019s seventy-fifth birthday party); TLS editor Lucy Dallas speaks to the novelist Nick Harkaway, no stranger to grim (not necessarily) alternative realities, about his new novel Gnomon


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