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Vol. 47 No. 10 · 5 June 2025
Daniel Trilling
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilisation by Richard Seymour. Verso, 280 pp., £20, October 2024, 978 1 80429 425 3
Letters
Galen Strawson, Rachel Hammersley, Colin McArthur, Jeremy Whiteley, Richard Davenport-Hines, Terry Hanstock, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, George Anderson, Koldo Casla, Martin Rose
Ed Kiely
Short Cuts: University Finances
Susan Pedersen
Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War by Sheila Fitzpatrick. Princeton, 341 pp., £30, January, 978 0 691 23002 3
Neal Ascherson
A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis by Norman Lewis, introduced and selected by John Hatt. Eland, 502 pp., £25, January, 978 1 78060 231 8
Jeremy Harding
Paths to Restitution
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Riefenstahl’
David Todd
Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics and the Making of Citizens by William Max Nelson. Chicago, 311 pp., £28, May 2024, 978 0 226 82558 8
Laleh Khalili
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief and the Future of the West by Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska. Bodley Head, 295 pp., £25, February, 978 2 84792 852 5 Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff. Scribner, 319 pp., £20, August 2024, 978 1 6680 3138 4
Hal Foster
Art in a State of Siege by Joseph Leo Koerner. Princeton, 365 pp., £30, March, 978 0 691 26721 0
Dinah Birch
Cover Her Face by P.D. James. Faber, 269 pp., £9.99, August 2024, 978 0 571 35077 3 A Mind to Murder by P.D. James. Faber, 277 pp., £9.99, August 2024, 978 0 571 35078 0 Unnatural Causes by P.D. James. Faber, 278 pp., £9.99, August 2024, 978 0 571 35079 7 Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James. Faber, 388 pp., £9.99, August 2024, 978 0 571 35080 3 The Black Tower by P.D. James. Faber, 374 pp., £9.99, August 2024, 978 0 571 35081 0 Devices and Desires by P.D. James. Faber, 594 pp., £9.99, November 2024, 978 0 571 34115 3
Joanna Biggs
A Blue Tale and Other Stories by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Alberto Manguel. Chicago, 82 pp., £12, July, 978 0 226 83689 8 ‘Zénon, sombre Zénon’: Correspondance 1968-70 by Marguerite Yourcenar. Gallimard, 944 pp., €42, November 2023, 978 2 07 298893 6
Erin Maglaque
At the National Gallery: Painting in Siena
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History by Peter Brown. Princeton, 713 pp., £38, June 2023, 978 0 691 24228 6
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘When the World Ended’
Deborah Valenze
The Social Topography of a Rural Community: Scenes of Labouring Life in 17th-Century England by Steve Hindle. Oxford, 472 pp., £100, June 2023, 978 0 19 286846 6
Chris Power
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel. Weidenfeld, 277 pp., £9.99, February 2024, 978 1 3996 2313 1 The Story Smuggler: A Very Brief Memoir by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Kristina Kovacheva and Dan Gunn. Weidenfeld, 70 pp., £14.99, February 2024, 978 1 3996 2311 7
Lili Owen Rowlands
Diary: Rape Crisis Centres
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