The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Inequality in the developed world fell for most of the 20th century; we can make it fall for most of the 21st… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The deconstructed, postmodern pizza has been with us for ages, and the fact is that pretty much every ingredient in the world… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
In the world where people with money overlap with restaurants and try to work out how to make more money, one of… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Tapas is one of the world's most civilised drinking and eating traditions. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The slogans of globalisation are 'Get on your bike' and 'The world is flat.' People who want to get on have to… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Cheap money feels like the most natural thing in the world - if you don't think about why it's so cheap. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Nobody in the developing world is going to take, as an answer to their aspirations, the developed world's reply: 'Sorry, you can't;… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Bastiat (1801–1850) was a strikingly clear-minded early advocate of what came to be known as liberal economics, whose central idea is that the state… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“What was going on here was something Smitty had seen before: a young person’s first real farewell to the world of school and college,… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“It seemed too as if many of the people were on display, behaving as if they expected to be looked at, as if they… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I find it… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
