Vol. 38 No. 24 · 15 December 2016

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Anne Rothenstein

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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

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
Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral by Karla Mantilla
Bad Clowns by Benjamin Radford
Trolls: An Unnatural History by John Lindow

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

Ange Mlinko

Poem: ‘From ‘Epic’

Neal Ascherson

Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by Adam Hochschild
¡No Pasarán! Writings from the Spanish Civil War edited by Pete Ayrton
The Last Days of the Spanish Republic by Paul Preston
A Distant Heartbeat: A War, a Disappearance and a Family’s Secrets by Eunice Lipton

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

Bernard Becker

In the GDR

Philip Clark

The Selected Letters of John Cage edited by Laura Kuhn
Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) by John Cage, edited by Richard Kraft and Joe Biel

Adam Thorpe

Poem: ‘Edge’

Rosemary Hill

Persuading the People: British Propaganda in World War Two by David Welch

Mark Philip Bradley

The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher Goscha

Jonathan Lethem

Diary: Theatre of Injury

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