Vol. 44 No. 19 · 6 October 2022

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Vol. 44 No. 19 · 6 October 2022

Mahmood Mamdani

The Asian Question

Letters

Alasdair MacVarish, Bernadette Wren, Richard Garside, Craig Sams, Paul Lawley, Roger Smith, Tom Hackett, Nat Odgers, Renée Roden, Justin Horton, Bernard Richards

Tom Stevenson

Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman. Allen Lane, 574 pp., £30, September 2022, 978 0 241 45699 6

Amia Srinivasan

Short Cuts: Andrea Dworkin’s Conviction

Miranda Carter

Dudes in Drapes

Daniel Soar

Lessons by Ian McEwan. Cape, 486 pp., £20, September, 978 1 78733 397 0

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Nope’

Tony Wood

Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change by Thane Gustafson. Harvard, 312 pp., £31.95, October 2021, 978 0 674 24743 7

Malcolm Gaskill

Indentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies by Anna Suranyi. McGill-Queen’s, 278 pp., £26.99, July 2021, 978 0 2280 0668 8

Alex Abramovich

Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson by Annye C. Anderson with Preston Lauterbach. Hachette Go, 224 pp., £20, July 2021, 978 0 306 84526 0

Nick Laird

Two Poems

Clare Bucknell

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell. Tinder, 438 pp., £25, August, 978 1 4722 2384 5

T.J. Clark

What is the burglar after?

Blake Morrison

Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell. Tilted Axis, 735 pp., £12, August 2021, 978 1 911284 61 1

Nicholas Penny

At the Wallace Collection

Emily Berry

Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill. Bloodaxe, 157 pp., £12.99, September 2021, 978 1 78037 586 1

Michael Neill

Diary

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