Review of Tom Slater 2021: Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question. Oakland: University of California Press.

Abstract

In creative writing courses, students are encouraged to ‘show, don’t tell’. Focus on action, dialogue and description and minimize exposition. Exposition deadens the text and disrupts the story’s flow. For the social sciences, however, exposition matters. Not only do we want to know what happened, we also want to know why it happened and […]