Vol. 41 No. 3 · 7 February 2019

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Vol. 41 No. 3 · 7 February 2019

McKenzie Funk

Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future by Edward Struzik. Island Press, 248 pp., £22.99, October 2017, 978 1 61091 818 3
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change by Ashley Dawson. Verso, 384 pp., £20, October 2017, 978 1 78478 036 4
Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault by Cary Fowler. Prospecta, 160 pp., £29.99, September 2016, 978 1 63226 057 4
Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration and Homeland Security by Todd Miller. City Lights, 272 pp., £7.99, September 2017, 978 0 87286 715 4

Letters

Jeremy Bernstein, Edmund Gordon, T.J. Clark, David Seddon, Hugh Roper, John Sewell, Tom Shippey, Richard Hill, Rajith Dissanayake, Matthew Cobb, Denis Crankshaw

Jessica Loudis

Border Traffic

William Davies

Leave, and Leave Again

Perry Anderson

Bolsonaro’s Brazil

Stephen Sedley

Short Cuts: Equality Legislation

James Davidson

At the Ashmolean: Antinouses

Charles Nicholl

Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer by Christopher Celenza. Reaktion, 224 pp., £15.95, October 2017, 978 1 78023 838 8

Julian Bell

Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come by T.J. Clark. Thames & Hudson, 288 pp., £24.95, October 2018, 978 0 500 02138 5

Wolfgang Streeck

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua Freeman. Norton, 448 pp., £12.99, March 2019, 978 0 393 35662 5

Padraig Rooney

North/South

Deborah Friedell

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. Picador, 320 pp., £9.99, March 2019, 978 1 5098 6808 7

Lauren Oyler

You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian. Cape, 226 pp., £12.99, February 2019, 978 1 78733 110 5

Stephanie Bishop

Poem: ‘On the Personification of Cumbersome Objects’

Mark Mazower

Mischka’s War: A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York by Sheila Fitzpatrick. I.B. Tauris, 336 pp., £20, June 2017, 978 1 78831 022 2

Musab Younis

Sex, France and Arab Men by Todd Shepard. Chicago, 317 pp., £37.50, February 2019, 978 0 226 49327 5

Matt Foot

Behind the Blue Line: My Fight against Racism and Discrimination in the Police by Gurpal Virdi. Biteback, 299 pp., £20, March 2018, 978 1 78590 321 2

Tony Wood

Diary: Russia’s Oppositions

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