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Vol. 38 No. 12 · 16 June 2016
Isabel Hull
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity by Philippe Sands. Weidenfeld, 437 pp., £20, May 2016, 978 1 4746 0190 0
Letters
Rachael Padman, Jay Prosser, Robert Hanks, Simon Barley, Michael Prior, Peter John Robertson, David Campbell, Martin Sanderson, Rupert Read, Philip Jacobson, Patricia Stapleton, Martyn Chalk, Nils Hanson
Daniel Hind
Short Cuts: The BBC
James Meek
How to Grow a Weetabix
Jeremy Harding
The Other Paris: An Illustrated Journey through a City’s Poor and Bohemian Past by Luc Sante. Faber, 306 pp., £25, November 2015, 978 0 571 24128 6 How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People by Sudhir Hazareesingh. Allen Lane, 427 pp., £20, June 2015, 978 1 84614 602 2
Christopher Benfey
At Driscoll Babcock: The Shock of the Old
Nicholas Penny
Letters of a Dead Man by Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, edited and translated by Linda Parshall. Dumbarton Oaks, 753 pp., £55.95, May 2016, 978 0 88402 411 8
John Lahr
What Happened, Miss Simone? A Biography by Alan Light. Canongate, 309 pp., £20, March 2016, 978 1 78211 871 8
Robert VanderMolen
Two Poems
Alice Spawls
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy. Hamish Hamilton, 218 pp., £12.99, March 2016, 978 0 241 14654 5
Michael Hofmann
Bright Scythe: Selected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Patty Crane. Sarabande, 207 pp., £13, November 2015, 978 1 941411 21 6
Dinah Birch
The Monk by Matthew Lewis. Oxford, 357 pp., £8.99, January 2016, 978 0 19 870445 4
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Captain America: Civil War’
Michael Kulikowski
Poiesis: Manufacturing in Classical Athens by Peter Acton. Oxford, 384 pp., £51, December 2014, 978 0 19 933593 0
August Kleinzahler
Two Poems
Mattathias Schwartz
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror by Michael Hayden. Penguin, 464 pp., £21.99, February 2016, 978 1 59420 656 6
Francis FitzGibbon
If We Leave
Martin Loughlin
The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy by Richard Tuck. Cambridge, 295 pp., £17.99, February 2016, 978 1 107 57058 0
Peter Pomerantsev
Diary: European Schools
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