Vol. 45 No. 21 · 2 November 2023

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Anne Rothenstein

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Vol. 45 No. 21 · 2 November 2023

Letters

Dariel Francis, M.W. Rowe, Antonia Fraser, Peter Jones, Nick Wray, David Laven, Marc A. Mamigonian, Charles Reeve, David Aneurin Morgan

Adam Shatz

Vengeful Pathologies

Eyal Weizman

Exchange Rate

Amjad Iraqi

After the Flood

Francis Gooding

The Leaflet

Emily Witt

Tremor by Teju Cole. Faber, 239 pp., £18.99, October, 978 0 571 28335 4

Charlotte Shevchenko Knight

Two Poems

Celia Donert

Europe and the Roma: A History of Fascination and Fear by Klaus-Michael Bogdal, translated by Jefferson Chase. Allen Lane, 588 pp., £40, July, 978 0 241 51902 8

Jonathan Coe

Different Times: A History of British Comedy by David Stubbs. Faber, 399 pp., £20, July, 978 0 571 35346 0

Daniel Soar

I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore. Faber, 193 pp., £16.99, June, 978 0 571 27385 0

John Lanchester

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis. Penguin, 255 pp., £35, October, 978 0 241 65111 7
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux. Weidenfeld, 267 pp., £25, September, 978 1 3996 1134 3

John-Paul Stonard

At the Whitechapel: On Nicole Eisenman

John Gallagher

Street Food: Hawkers and the History of London by Charlie Taverner. Oxford, 256 pp., £30, January, 978 0 19 284694 5

Jenny Turner

Short Cuts: At the Labour Party Conference

Ewan Gibbs

Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85 by Robert Gildea. Yale, 469 pp., £25, August, 978 0 300 26658 0

Philippe Marlière

A Socialist History of the French Revolution by Jean Jaurès, translated by Mitchell Abidor. Pluto, 259 pp., £19.99, July, 978 0 7453 4219 1
Selected Writings of Jean Jaurès: On Socialism, Pacifism and Marxism edited by Jean-Numa Ducange and Elisa Marcobelli, translated by David Broder. Palgrave, 158 pp., £89.99, June 2022, 978 3 030 71961 6

Barbara Newman

Eleanor of Aquitaine, as It Was Said: Truths and Tales about the Medieval Queen by Karen Sullivan. Chicago, 270 pp., £36, August, 978 0 226 82583 0

Ange Mlinko

The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson. Norton, 761 pp., £30, September 2023, 978 1 324 00180 5
Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox. Allen Lane, 442 pp., £30, July 2023, 978 0 241 52451 0

Gale Walden

Diary: David’s Presence

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