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Vol. 47 No. 14 · 14 August 2025
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Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails by Ben Chu. Basic Books, 310 pp., £25, May, 978 1 3998 1716 5 No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China and Helping America’s Workers by Robert Lighthizer. Broadside, 384 pp., £25, August 2023, 978 0 06 328213 1
Letters
Paul Colbeck, Martin Cox, George Kopp, Iain Overton, Joanna Collins, Hugh Pennington, Mark Dow, David Swarbrick, John Mullen, Peter Geier
David Harsent
Poem: ‘Under the Iron Bridge’
Josephine Quinn
The Ancient Shore by Paul J. Kosmin. Harvard, 399 pp., £37.95, November 2024, 978 0 674 29624 4
Loubna Mrie
‘We were tricked’
James Vincent
White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus – in Our Cells, in Our Food and in Our World by Jack Lohmann. Oneworld, 288 pp., £18.99, April, 978 1 83643 087 2
Thomas Jones
Enzo Ferrari: The Definitive Biography of an Icon by Luca Dal Monte. Cassell, 520 pp., £12.99, February, 978 1 78840 475 4
Amir Ahmadi Arian
In Evin Prison
Clair Wills
The Price of Safety
Jeremy Harding
At the Musée Carnavalet: ‘Le Paris d’Agnès Varda’
Richard Seymour
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World: Essays by David Graeber, edited by Nika Dubrovsky. Allen Lane, 356 pp., £25, November 2024, 978 0 241 61155 5
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Then the Fog’
Jonathan Coe
Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman. Fitzcarraldo, 213 pp., £12.99, April, 978 1 80427 153 7
Brian Dillon
At Tate Modern: ‘Leigh Bowery!’
Colin Kidd
Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain by Stefan Collini. Oxford, 648 pp., £35, April, 978 0 19 880018 7
Barbara Newman
Boccaccio: A Biography by Marco Santagata, translated by Emlyn Eisenach. Chicago, 457 pp., £30, May, 978 0 226 82094 1 Boccaccio Defends Literature by Brenda Deen Schildgen. Toronto, 287 pp., £59, February, 978 1 4875 5891 8
David Renton
Short Cuts: What is the meaning of support?
Clare Bucknell
The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride. Faber, 327 pp., £20, February, 978 0 571 38421 1
Diane Williams
Story: ‘No Heartburn, Flatulence, Nausea or Muscular Cramps Either’
Adam Phillips
On Resistance
Susannah Clapp
On Hallie Flanagan
Patricia Lockwood
Diary: Back to the Rectory
Extra
Adam Shatz
Berlin Diary
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