Vol. 39 No. 2 · 19 January 2017

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Anne Rothenstein

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Vol. 39 No. 2 · 19 January 2017

Rebecca Solnit

From Lying to Leering

Letters

Edward Luttwak, Wolfgang Streeck, Adam Tooze, Fabian Acker, Suzanne Erfurth, Shaun Spiers, Luke Mitcheson, Christopher Lord, Sheila Fitzpatrick, David Seddon, Luc Bourrousse, Norbert Hirschhorn

Clare Bucknell

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel by John Stubbs. Viking, 752 pp., £19.99, November 2016, 978 0 670 92205 5

Ian Patterson

Poem: ‘Saving Time’

Glen Newey

Utopia by Thomas More, edited by George M. Logan, translated by Robert M. Adams. Cambridge, 141 pp., £9.99, August 2016, 978 1 107 56873 0
Utopia by Thomas More, translated by Gilbert Burnet. Verso, 216 pp., £8.99, November 2016, 978 1 78478 760 8

Thomas Jones

The Hunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe by Thomas Levenson. Head of Zeus, 229 pp., £7.99, August 2016, 978 1 78497 398 8

Jeremy Harding

The Dictator’s Last Night by Yasmina Khadra, translated by Julian Evans. Gallic, 199 pp., £7.99, October 2015, 978 1 910477 13 7

Adam O’Riordan

Two Poems

Adam Shatz

Écrits sur l’aliénation et la liberté by Frantz Fanon, edited by Robert Young and Jean Khalfa. La Découverte, 688 pp., £22, October 2015, 978 2 7071 8638 6

Stephen Sedley

Short Cuts: Anonymity

Martha Sprackland

Poem: ‘Hunterian Triptych’

Julian Barnes

At the Fondation Louis Vuitton: The Shchukin Collection

Garth Greenwell

Hide by Matthew Griffin. Bloomsbury, 272 pp., £16.99, August 2016, 978 1 4088 6708 2

Amia Srinivasan

Bundles

Colin Kidd

The Marches: Border Walks with My Father by Rory Stewart. Cape, 351 pp., £18.99, October 2016, 978 0 224 09768 0

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘La La Land’

Alexander Briant

Diary: Oil Industry Corruption

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