The Few The Few The Few were the airmen of the Royal Air Force (RAF) who fought the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. The term comes from Winston Churchill's phrase "Never, in the field of human conflict, was so much owed by so many to so few." It also alludes to Shakespeare's famous speech in his play, "Henry V": "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..." Nearly 3,000 men were awarded the "Battle of Britain" clasp. As of July 2018, only eight survivors of The Few are still living. By one tally, British RAF aircrew numbered 2,353
What We Lose Clemmons to authors like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Meghan O’Rourke, and Claudia Rankine. Clemmons cites Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" as a significant influence for "What We Lose". The novel received overwhelmingly positive reviews. "The New York Times" review said, "The book’s distinctive form and voice give it an unusual capacity to show how individuals connect deep feeling to broad political understanding — an experience too rarely rendered in fiction." "The Guardian" called "a debut of haunting fragments". "The Telegraph" praised it as an "Intelligently and impressively conceived, and beautifully told" novel. What We Lose What We Lose is the debut