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Vol. 37 No. 23 · 3 December 2015
David Runciman
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography Vol. II: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore. Allen Lane, 821 pp., £30, October 2015, 978 0 7139 9288 5
Letters
Janet L. Nelson, Iain Bamforth, David Matthews, David Elstein, Lee Gillette, Paul Machon, Keith Salway
Adam Shatz
Magical Thinking about Isis
Peter Roderick
Is that it for the NHS?
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Text, 152 pp., £10.99, September 2015, 978 1 925240 70 2
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore by Linda Leavell. Farrar, Straus, 455 pp., $18, September 2014, 978 0 374 53494 3
Steven Shapin
Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English by Michael Gordin. Profile, 432 pp., £25, March 2015, 978 1 78125 114 0
Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43 edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky, translated by Tatiana Sorokina and Oliver Ready. Yale, 584 pp., £25, September 2015, 978 0 300 18067 1
Tim Whitmarsh
How to Manage Your Slaves by Marcus Sidonius Falx, with Jerry Toner. Profile, 224 pp., £8.99, May 2015, 978 1 78125 251 2
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Self-Portrait at Three Degrees’
Christopher Kelly
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD by Peter Brown. Princeton, 759 pp., £16.95, March 2014, 978 0 691 16177 8 The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity by Peter Brown. Harvard, 262 pp., £18.95, April 2015, 978 0 674 96758 8
John Lanchester
Short Cuts: Phished
Pankaj Mishra
On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present by Alan Ryan. Penguin, 1152 pp., £14.99, September 2013, 978 0 14 028518 5 Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism by Larry Siedentop. Penguin, 448 pp., £9.99, January 2015, 978 0 14 100954 4 Liberalism: The Life of an Idea by Edmund Fawcett. Princeton, 496 pp., £16.95, September 2015, 978 0 691 16839 5 An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō and a New Liberal Order in East Asia 1905-37 by Jung-Sun Ni Han. Harvard, 244 pp., £29.95, March 2013, 978 0 674 06571 0
Theo Tait
John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman. Bloomsbury, 652 pp., £25, October 2015, 978 1 4088 2792 5
Rosemary Hill
At the Barbican: The Eclecticism of the Eameses
Christian Lorentzen
Spectre directed by Sam Mendes.The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters edited by Fergus Fleming. Bloomsbury, 391 pp., £25, October 2015, 978 1 4088 6547 7 Ian Fleming: A Personal Memoir by Robert Harling. Robson, 372 pp., £20, October 2015, 978 84 95493 65 1
Marina Warner
Diary: Medea
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