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Vol. 46 No. 20 · 24 October 2024
Letters
Bridget Fowler, T.J. Clark, Ted Smethurst, Tony Spawforth, Bill Lancaster, David Zeitlyn, Michael Allen, Thom Cross
Sheila Fitzpatrick
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans. Princeton, 797 pp., £35, August, 978 0 691 11703 4
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Megalopolis’
Neal Ascherson
Believe Nothing until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism by Patrick Cockburn. Verso, 293 pp., £25, October, 978 1 80429 075 0
Adam Shatz
After Nasrallah
Deborah Friedell
Short Cuts: Reading J.D. Vance
Jeremy Harding
How to Write about Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina. Penguin, 352 pp., £10.99, April, 978 0 241 25253 6
Tom Stammers
Tangled Paths: A Life of Aby Warburg by Hans C. Hönes. Reaktion, 288 pp., £25, March, 978 1 78914 851 0
Michael Hofmann
At the Louisiana: On Chaïm Soutine
Toril Moi
‘The Unforgivable’ and Other Writings by Cristina Campo, translated by Alex Andriesse. NYRB, 269 pp., £16.99, February, 978 1 68137 802 2
Rosemary Hill
The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art by Robyne Calvert. Yale, 208 pp., £35, April, 978 0 300 23985 0
Helen Thaventhiran
Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James by William James, edited by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle. Princeton, 387 pp., £25, January 2023, 978 0 691 24015 2 William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician by Emma K. Sutton. Chicago, 251 pp., £24, December 2023, 978 0 226 82898 5
John Burnside
Two Poems
Bee Wilson
Madame Restell: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright. Hachette, 352 pp., £17.99, May, 978 0 306 82681 8
Elizabeth Goldring
At Kenwood House: Curtain Pictures
Colin Kidd
How to Steal a Presidential Election by Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman. Yale, 162 pp., £25, April, 978 0 300 27079 2
Tom Johnson
By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England by Jessica Marie Otis. Oxford, 264 pp., £18.99, April, 978 0 19 760878 4
Rosamond McKitterick
House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France by Justine Firnhaber-Baker. Allen Lane, 408 pp., £30, March, 978 0 241 55277 3
Adam Mars-Jones
I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson. Faber, 294 pp., £14.99, July, 978 0 571 35674 4
Ange Mlinko
Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good by Eley Williams. Fourth Estate, 199 pp., £16.99, July, 978 0 00 861892 6
Francis FitzGibbon
Diary: Why I Resigned
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