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Vol. 46 No. 17 · 12 September 2024
John Lanchester
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates and the Unravelling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland. Macmillan, 352 pp., £22, August, 978 1 5290 7560 1 The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson. Allen Lane, 432 pp., £25, March, 978 0 241 63660 2
Letters
Charlie Hanks, Andrew Fried, Tom Carson, David Elstein, Margo Miller, Philip Allott, Peter Pack, Alan Donovan, Irène Eulriet, Allen Grace, David Robbins
Kevin Okoth
Short Cuts: Kenya’s Crises
Ferdinand Mount
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple. Bloomsbury, 482 pp., £30, September, 978 1 4088 6441 8
Perry Anderson
Zhou Enlai: A Life by Chen Jian. Harvard, 817 pp., £29.95, May, 978 0 674 65958 2
Lucy Wooding
All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil by Stephen Alford. Allen Lane, 424 pp., £30, July, 978 0 241 42347 9 Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration by Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman. Yale, 317 pp., £20, June, 978 0 300 26754 9
Mary Beard
Reminiscences of a Student’s Life: A Memoir by Jane Ellen Harrison. McNally, 84 pp., £14.99, May, 978 1 961341 99 9
Francis Gooding
Forbidden Fruit: An Anthropologist Looks at Incest by Maurice Godelier, translated by Nora Scott. Verso, 100 pp., £9.99, September 2023, 978 1 80429 234 1
John-Paul Stonard
At the Punta della Dogana: Pierre Huyghe’s Posthumans
Frederick Wilmot-Smith
Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Law by Jeremy Waldron. Harvard, 326 pp., £37.95, December 2023, 978 0 674 29077 8
Stefan Collini
Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On the Novel and Journalism edited by Christopher Ricks. Oxford, 258 pp., £160, May 2023, 978 0 19 288283 7
Christian Lorentzen
Not a Tough Crowd
Maureen N. McLane
Poem: ‘Long Slide (Gnomic Stanzas)’
Brandon Taylor
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner. Cape, 407 pp., £18.99, September, 978 1 78733 174 7
Malin Hay
My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand. Century, 992 pp., £35, November 2023, 978 1 5291 3689 0
Nicholas Penny
Old Furniture
Edmund Gordon
The Material by Camille Bordas. Serpent’s Tail, 352 pp., £16.99, July, 978 1 80522 006 0
Celia Paul
Diary: Lucian Freud’s Sitters
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