There is a story about the last white man by the creator of Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard (1906-1936), but The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid, published by Hamish Hamilton, is not that story. Rather as the name suggests, it is the woke take on things, as white people lose their colour, one by one. Boring, I say, compared to Howard’s story which I think is worth reading, and in the light of the Great Replacement, as reality is, well, real, and happening now, while this sort of fiction is just possible in a white society where the chattering class of white liberals rejoice in ethno-masochism and self-debasement. I suggest the novelist go to Iran and write about the last Muslim, or China and write about the last Han Chinese.