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Vol. 37 No. 18 · 24 September 2015
Amia Srinivasan
Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill. Guardian Faber, 325 pp., £14.99, August 2015, 978 1 78335 049 0
Letters
John-Paul Stonard, Keith Richardson, Hanks, père, Christopher Gordon, Robin Durie, Clare Bainbridge, Richard Carter, Andrew Sinclair, Michèle Roberts, Rosie Brocklehurst
Thomas Laqueur
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann. Little Brown, 865 pp., £25, April 2015, 978 0 316 72967 3
Michael Longley
Poem: ‘Room to Rhyme’
Diarmaid MacCulloch
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman. Allen Lane, 400 pp., £25, September 2015, 978 1 84614 477 6
Stephen Sedley
The Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law by Richard Kay. Catholic University of America, 277 pp., £45, December 2014, 978 0 8132 2687 3
Colin Kidd
Constitutional Law of Scotland by Alan Page. W. Green, 334 pp., £95, June 2015, 978 0 414 01456 5
Michael Wood
At the Movies: The Killers', Criterion Collection
David Craig
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane. Hamish Hamilton, 387 pp., £20, March 2015, 978 0 241 14653 8
Andrew O’Hagan
At Tottenham Court Road
James Meek
Purity by Jonathan Franzen. Fourth Estate, 563 pp., £20, September 2015, 978 0 00 753276 6
Adam Mars-Jones
Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen. Harvill Secker, 580 pp., £16.99, June 2015, 978 1 84655 865 8
Daniel Soar
Short Cuts: Remote Killing
Christian Lorentzen
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Picador, 720 pp., £16.99, August 2015, 978 1 4472 9481 8
Peter Howarth
On Nicholas Moore
David Runciman
Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change by Nicholas Stern. MIT, 406 pp., £19.95, May 2015, 978 0 262 02918 6 Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet by Dieter Helm. Yale, 278 pp., £20, May 2015, 978 0 300 21098 9 Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman. Princeton, 250 pp., £19.95, February 2015, 978 0 691 15947 8
Iain Sinclair
Diary: Swimming on the 52nd Floor
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