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Vol. 47 No. 6 · 3 April 2025
Perry Anderson
Regime Change in the West?
Letters
Benjamin James, Killian O’ Donnell, Anne Horslett, Peter Purton, Patrick O’Connor, Elliott Smith, Nigel Saxby, John Riches, Sarah Pothecary
Judith Butler
This Is Wrong
Deborah Friedell
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac. Cornerstone, 468 pp., £25, September 2024, 978 1 5299 1469 6 Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson. Simon and Schuster, 688 pp., £12.99, February, 978 1 3985 2753 9
Thom Dyke
Short Cuts: Detained in Guantánamo
Daniel Lee
Normandy: The Sailors’ Story by Nick Hewitt. Yale, 433 pp., £12.99, March, 978 0 300 28109 5 D-Day, the Oral History: The Turning Point of World War Two by the People Who Were There by Garrett M. Graff. Monoray, 448 pp., £14.99, March, 978 1 80096 219 4
Tessa Hadley
The Uncollected Stories by Mavis Gallant, edited by Garth Risk Hallberg. NYRB, 590 pp., £18, January, 978 1 68137 874 9 Green Water, Green Sky by Mavis Gallant. Daunt, 160 pp., £9.99, July 2024, 978 1 914198 92 2
Julian Bell
On Drawing
Ferdinand Mount
The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull. Allen Lane, 324 pp., £30, January, 978 0 241 52365 0
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Mickey 17’
Alexander Bevilacqua
The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius by Richard Calis. Harvard, 301 pp., £33.95, February, 978 0 674 29273 4
Peter E. Gordon
Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1 by Karl Marx, edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter, translated by Paul Reitter. Princeton, 857 pp., £35, September 2024, 978 0 691 19007 5
Rosemary Hill
At Pallant House: On Dora Carrington
Daniel Cohen
You May Never See Us Again: The Barclay Dynasty – A Story of Survival, Secrecy and Succession by Jane Martinson. Penguin, 336 pp., £10.99, October 2024, 978 1 4059 5890 5
Blake Morrison
Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah. Bloomsbury, 246 pp., £18.99, March, 978 1 5266 7864 5
Mary Hannity
A Home from Home? Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1870-1920 by Claudia Soares. Oxford, 231 pp., £83, February 2023, 978 0 19 289747 3
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘Anosmia’
Long Ling
Diary: In the new Beijing
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