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Vol. 38 No. 24 · 15 December 2016
Mary Wellesley
Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England 1100-1837 by Caroline Grigson. Oxford, 349 pp., £25, January 2016, 978 0 19 871470 5
Letters
Iain Mackintosh, Jon Miles, Mark Smith, Jonathan Harlow, Jonathan Holmes, Janet Halliday, David Wilson, Annie Epelboin, Hermione Goulding
Tom Crewe
The Strange Death of Municipal England
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘In Late December’
Richard Seymour
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture by Whitney Phillips. MIT, 256 pp., £10, September 2016, 978 0 262 52987 7 Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral by Karla Mantilla. Praeger, 280 pp., £32, August 2015, 978 1 4408 3317 5 Bad Clowns by Benjamin Radford. New Mexico, 188 pp., £12, February 2016, 978 0 8263 5666 6 Trolls: An Unnatural History by John Lindow. Reaktion, 60 pp., £9.99, August 2015, 978 1 78023 565 3
Peter de Bolla
At the Royal Academy: Abstract Expressionism
Andrew O’Hagan
‘The Crown’
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Napoléon’
Tim Parks
Flaubert by Michel Winock, translated by Nicholas Elliott. Harvard, 528 pp., £25, October 2016, 978 0 674 73795 2
Ange Mlinko
Poem: ‘From ‘Epic’’
Neal Ascherson
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by Adam Hochschild. Macmillan, 438 pp., £25, April 2016, 978 1 5098 1054 3 ¡No Pasarán! Writings from the Spanish Civil War edited by Pete Ayrton. Serpent’s Tail, 393 pp., £20, April 2016, 978 1 84668 997 0 The Last Days of the Spanish Republic by Paul Preston. William Collins, 390 pp., £25, February 2016, 978 0 00 816340 2 A Distant Heartbeat: A War, a Disappearance and a Family’s Secrets by Eunice Lipton. New Mexico, 165 pp., £18.50, April 2016, 978 0 8263 5658 1
Stephen W. Smith
Short Cuts: The ICC
Julian Bell
At the National Gallery: Beyond Caravaggio
Adewale Maja-Pearce
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening by Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Harvill Secker, 256 pp., £14.99, November 2016, 978 1 84655 989 1
Bernard Becker
In the GDR
Philip Clark
The Selected Letters of John Cage edited by Laura Kuhn. Wesleyan, 618 pp., £30, January 2016, 978 0 8195 7591 3 Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) by John Cage, edited by Richard Kraft and Joe Biel. Siglio, 176 pp., £26, October 2015, 978 1 938221 10 1
Adam Thorpe
Poem: ‘Edge’
Rosemary Hill
Persuading the People: British Propaganda in World War Two by David Welch. British Library, 224 pp., £25, September 2016, 978 0 7123 5654 1
Mark Philip Bradley
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher Goscha. Allen Lane, 634 pp., £30, June 2016, 978 1 84614 310 6
Jonathan Lethem
Diary: Theatre of Injury
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