Following the death of his wife, a critic-teacher takes a job with an art-washing multinational, in a cinematic novel that is full of ideas At the end of a night in a London pub, after last orders have been called, three friends are joking about what role they’d serve on a remote desert island, w...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/15/the-floating-world-by-ben-eastham-review-a-compelling-debut-of-arts-relation-to-money-and-power)