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Vol. 38 No. 17 · 8 September 2016
Terry Eagleton
The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England by Elizabeth Foyster. Oneworld, 368 pp., £20, September 2016, 978 1 78074 960 0
Letters
David Roberts, Colin Munro, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Peter Jackson, Frank Stone, Dennis Smith, Simon Down, Benjamin Friedman, John O’Byrne
Tim Barker
Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt by Sarah Jaffe. Nation, 352 pp., £20, August 2016, 978 1 56858 536 9
David Runciman
Untouchable?
Stuart Middleton
Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister? Reappraising Harold Wilson edited by Andrew Crines and Kevin Hickson. Biteback, 319 pp., £20, March 2016, 978 1 78590 031 0
Mike Jay
The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by John Foot. Verso, 404 pp., £20, August 2015, 978 1 78168 926 4
Jonathan Meades
Short Cuts: This Thing Called the Future
Steven Rose
How to Get Another Thorax
Mary Ann Caws
At MoMA: Dadaglobe Reconstructed
Thomas Nagel
Does Terrorism Work? A History by Richard English. Oxford, 367 pp., £25, July 2016, 978 0 19 960785 3
Owen Bennett-Jones
The Overlooked
Raoul Vaneigem
A Thousand Erotic Games
Malise Ruthven
What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic by Shahab Ahmed. Princeton, 609 pp., £29.95, November 2015, 978 0 691 16418 2
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘Wrong Norma’
Michael Newton
Charles Williams: The Third Inkling by Grevel Lindop. Oxford, 493 pp., £25, October 2015, 978 0 19 928415 3
Jeremy Harding
At the Centre Pompidou: Beat Generation
Emily Witt
The Girls by Emma Cline. Chatto, 355 pp., £12.99, June 2016, 978 1 78474 044 3
David Denby
Diary: Deaths on Camera
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