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Vol. 47 No. 21 · 20 November 2025
Letters
Chris Goldie, Thomas Laqueur, Andrew Dobson, Gerry Gilmore, Nick Wray, Jeremy Beer, Shaun Spiers, John Peacock
John Kerrigan
Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades by David Eltis. Cambridge, 442 pp., £30, February, 978 1 009 51897 0 Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery by Ana Lucia Araujo. Chicago, 640 pp., £32, October 2024, 978 0 226 77158 8 The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery by Siddharth Kara. Doubleday, 304 pp., £22, October, 978 1 5299 6432 5 Zong! by m. nourbeSe philip. Silver Press, 256 pp., £13.99, November 2023, 978 0 9957162 4 7
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Demonstration’
David Runciman
After the Spike: The Risks of Global Depopulation and the Case for People by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso. Bodley Head, 307 pp., £22, July, 978 1 84792 835 1 No One Left: Why the World Needs More Children by Paul Morland. Swift, 264 pp., £12.99, March, 978 1 80075 412 6 The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction by Henry Gee. Picador, 278 pp., £18.99, March, 978 1 0350 3083 5
Kevin Okoth
Short Cuts: Kenya after Odinga
Donald MacKenzie
The Future of Search
Adam Smyth
Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books by Eric Marshall White. Reaktion, 223 pp., £16.95, April, 978 1 83639 039 8
Tess Little
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story by Pagan Kennedy. Vintage, 320 pp., £15.99, January, 978 0 593 31471 5
Daniel Trilling
At Modern Two: Protest Photography
Josie Mitchell
Ruth by Kate Riley. Doubleday, 248 pp., £16.99, August, 978 0 85752 988 6
J. Hoberman
Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life by Dan Nadel. Scribner, 458 pp., £25, May, 978 1 9821 4400 5
Brett Christophers
Waste Wars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish by Alexander Clapp. John Murray, 392 pp., £25, February, 978 1 3998 0311 3 Wasteland: The Dirty Truth about What We Throw Away, Where It Goes and Why It Matters by Oliver Franklin-Wallis. Simon and Schuster, 390 pp., £10.99, April 2024, 978 1 3985 0547 6 The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life by John Scanlan. Reaktion, 304 pp., £25, March, 978 1 83639 034 3
Niamh Gallagher
Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X. Scanlan. Little, Brown, 340 pp., £25, March, 978 1 4721 4687 8
Holly Case
Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939 by Iryna Vushko. Yale, 352 pp., £25, April 2024, 978 0 300 26755 6
Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson
What’s in the junk?
Stephen Phelan
Diary: Spain’s Disappeared
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