Unfolding, turning and spinning, Kapow is a new book by best-selling British writer Adam Thirlwell. Kapow takes place in the thick of the Arab Spring, guided by the highspeed monologue of an unnamed narrator over-doped, over-caffeinated, over-weight trying to make sense of this history in real time: with 24 hour broadcasts, YouTube films, lesbian bars in London s East End and far too many newspaper clippings. A clever, funny and bitingly critical...