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Vol. 36 No. 16 · 21 August 2014
Patrick Cockburn
Isis consolidates
Letters
John Cornwell, Sally Apperley, Keith Flett, Nikil Saval, Peter Green, Henry Stead, Paul Tindall, Gary Harris, Martin Wakefield, Sarah Murray
Gavin Francis
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers by Joanna Bourke. Oxford, 396 pp., £20, June 2014, 978 0 19 968942 2
Robert Crawford
Poem: ‘Levity’
Nathan Thrall
Hamas’s Chances
Tony Wood
At Tate Modern: Kazimir Malevich
Ferdinand Mount
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: from the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence by David Bromwich. Harvard, 500 pp., £25, May 2014, 978 0 674 72970 4 Moral Imagination: Essays by David Bromwich. Princeton, 350 pp., £19.95, March 2014, 978 0 691 16141 9
Colin Kidd
Faction Displayed: Reconsidering the Impeachment of Dr Henry Sacheverell edited by Mark Knights. Wiley-Blackwell, 132 pp., £19.99, February 2012, 978 1 4443 6187 2 The State Trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell edited by Brian Cowan. Wiley-Blackwell, 307 pp., £22.99, November 2012, 978 1 4443 3223 0
Neal Ascherson
What sort of Scotland?
David Runciman
A Pound Here, a Pound There
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: Kitsch and Kilts in Celtic Park
Susan Pedersen
The Life of R.H. Tawney by Lawrence Goldman. Bloomsbury, 411 pp., £65, September 2013, 978 1 78093 704 5
Jonah Miller
City Women: Money, Sex and the Social Order in Early Modern London by Eleanor Hubbard. Oxford, 297 pp., £24.99, September 2014, 978 0 19 872204 5 Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London by Tim Reinke-Williams. Palgrave, 225 pp., £60, April 2014, 978 1 137 37209 3
Owen Hatherley
Guide to the Architecture of London by Edward Jones and Christopher Woodward. Phoenix, 511 pp., £16.99, July 2013, 978 1 78022 493 0
Thomas Jones
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris. Viking, 337 pp., £16.99, May 2014, 978 0 670 91773 0
Lidija Haas
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi. Picador, 288 pp., £12.99, February 2014, 978 1 4472 3713 6
Helen DeWitt
Diary: On Being Stalked
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