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Vol. 41 No. 4 · 21 February 2019
Jackson Lears
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert M. Dallek.. Allen Lane, 692 pp., £30, November 2017, 978 0 241 31584 2
Letters
Edward Luttwak, Peter Bailey, Howard Finn, Valentin Lyubarsky, Brian Vickers, Hassan Damluji
Tony Wood
The Battle for Venezuela
Vadim Nikitin
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back by Oliver Bullough. Profile, 304 pp., £20, September 2018, 978 1 78125 792 0 Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future by Louise Shelley. Princeton, 376 pp., £24, October 2018, 978 0 691 17018 3
David Runciman
A Change Is Coming
Patricia Lockwood
The Communal Mind: The Internet and Me
Lauren Elkin
Adèle by Leïla Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor. Faber, 209 pp., £12.99, February 2019, 978 0 571 33195 6
Norma Clarke
The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith edited by Michael Griffin and David O’Shaughnessy. Cambridge, 232 pp., £64.99, July 2018, 978 1 107 09353 9
Joyce Chaplin
Selected Writings by Alexander Von Humboldt, edited by Andrea Wulf. Everyman, 840 pp., £15, November 2018, 978 1 84159 387 6
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Vice’
Francis Gooding
The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist by Tim Birkhead. Bloomsbury, 353 pp., £25, May 2018, 978 1 4088 7848 4 Mrs Moreau’s Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names by Stephen Moss. Faber, 357 pp., £16.99, February 2018, 978 1 78335 090 2
Anne Wagner
At the Sainsbury Centre: Elisabeth Frink
Christopher Kelly
The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity by H.C. Teitler. Oxford, 271 pp., £22.99, April 2017, 978 0 19 062650 1
Nicholas Spice
On Loathing Rees-Mogg
Tim Parks
Graziella by Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Raymond MacKenzie. Minnesota, 168 pp., £12.99, November 2018, 978 1 5179 0247 6
Christopher Tayler
Short Cuts: King Charles the Martyr
Chris Mullin
Diary: The Birmingham Bombers
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