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Vol. 37 No. 15 · 30 July 2015
Letters
Robin O’Malley, Brian Slocock, Peter Green, Joanne Mariner, Tom Rivers, Colin Darch, Keith Flett, Martin Sanderson, Frank Donald, Josephine Boot
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Landscapes of Communism: A History through Buildings by Owen Hatherley. Allen Lane, 613 pp., £25, June 2015, 978 1 84614 768 5
Julian Barnes
Ever Yours: The Essential Letters by Vincent van Gogh, edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. Yale, 777 pp., £30, December 2014, 978 0 300 20947 1 Van Gogh: A Power Seething by Julian Bell. Amazon, 171 pp., £6.99, January 2015, 978 1 4778 0129 1
Adam Mars-Jones
Sphinx by Anne Garréta, translated by Emma Ramadan. Deep Vellum, 120 pp., £9.87, April 2015, 978 1 941920 09 1
Frederick Wilmot-Smith
Court Cuts
Don Paterson
Poem: ‘Four Poems’
Jenny Diski
Why can’t people just be sensible?
Steven Shapin
Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger. Reaktion, 326 pp., £25, May 2015, 978 1 78023 440 3
Perry Anderson
One Exceptional Figure Stood Out
Julian Bell
At the Watts Gallery: Richard Dadd
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: The Other Atticus Finch
Colin Kidd
The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century by George Molyneaux. Oxford, 302 pp., £65, May 2015, 978 0 19 871791 1 The English and Their History by Robert Tombs. Allen Lane, 1012 pp., £14.99, June 2015, 978 0 14 103165 1 Conquests, Catastrophe and Recovery: Britain and Ireland 1066-1485 by John Gillingham. Vintage, 345 pp., £10.99, October 2014, 978 0 09 956324 2 From Restoration to Reform: The British Isles 1660-1832 by Jonathan Clark. Vintage, 364 pp., £10.99, October 2014, 978 0 09 956323 5 Britain since 1900: A Success Story? by Robert Skidelsky. Vintage, 472 pp., £10.99, October 2014, 978 0 09 957239 8
Emily Berry
Poem: ‘Tragedy for One Voice’
Steven Mithen
Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters by Martin Rudwick. Chicago, 360 pp., £21, October 2014, 978 0 226 20393 5
Rosemary Hill
Princes at War: The British Royal Family’s Private Battle in the Second World War by Deborah Cadbury. Bloomsbury, 407 pp., £25, April 2015, 978 1 4088 4524 0
David Edgar
Jeremy Thorpe by Michael Bloch. Little, Brown, 606 pp., £25, December 2014, 978 0 316 85685 0 Closet Queens: Some 20th-Century British Politicians by Michael Bloch. Little, Brown, 320 pp., £25, May 2015, 978 1 4087 0412 7
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Touch of Evil’
Tariq Ali
Diary: In Athens
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