Drilling Through Hard BoardsMax Weber famously described politics as 'a strong, slow drilling through hard boards with both passion and judgement'. Taking this as his inspiration, Alexander Kluge brings readers yet another literary masterpiece a kaleidoscopic meditation on the tools available to those who struggle for power. The Drill certainly embodies intelligent tenacity as a precondition for political change. But what is a hammer in the business of politics, Kluge wonders,