Book Launch: Accelerate! a History of the 1990s by Prof. James Brooke-Smith

James Brooke-Smith is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Accelerate! a History of the 1990s (The History Press, 2022) and Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion and the British Public School (Reaktion, 2019). His essays have appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, the Times Literary Supplement, and Literature Hub. In 2023 he was the author of the annual Massey Essay for the Literary Review of Canada, "Where's Johnny?" on the art of public conversation.