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Vol. 39 No. 5 · 2 March 2017
Colm Tóibín
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer by Arthur Lubow. Cape, 734 pp., £35, October 2016, 978 0 224 09770 3 Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov by Alexander Nemerov. Fraenkel Gallery, 106 pp., $30, March 2015, 978 1 881337 41 6
Letters
Benjamin Letzler, Harry Harmer, Markus Eichhorn, Christopher Prendergast, Miles Beard, Gordon Kerry, Udith Dematagoda, Jonathan Spencer, Thomas Meaney
Tony Wood
Return to Cold War by Robert Legvold. Polity, 208 pp., £14.99, February 2016, 978 1 5095 0189 2 Should We Fear Russia? by Dmitri Trenin. Polity, 144 pp., £9.99, November 2016, 978 1 5095 1091 7 Who Lost Russia? How the World Entered a New Cold War by Peter Conradi. Oneworld, 384 pp., £18.99, February 2017, 978 1 78607 041 8
Adam Shatz
The Deep State
Hugh Wilford
America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State by Osamah F. Khalil. Harvard, 426 pp., £25.95, October 2016, 978 0 674 97157 8
Adam Mars-Jones
Moonglow by Michael Chabon. HarperCollins, 448 pp., £18.99, January 2017, 978 0 00 754891 0
Christopher Tayler
Nicotine by Nell Zink. Fourth Estate, 288 pp., £14.99, October 2016, 978 0 00 817917 5 Private Novelist by Nell Zink. Ecco, 336 pp., $15.99, October 2016, 978 0 06 245830 8
Barbara Newman
Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian by Leonora Neville. Oxford, 240 pp., £41.99, September 2016, 978 0 19 049817 7
Benjamin Kunkel
The Birth of the Anthropocene by Jeremy Davies. California, 240 pp., £24.95, June 2016, 978 0 520 28997 0 Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason Moore. Verso, 336 pp., £19.99, August 2015, 978 1 78168 902 8 Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm. Verso, 496 pp., £20, October 2015, 978 1 78478 129 3
Karen Solie
Poem: ‘A Miscalculation’
Stephen Sedley
Short Cuts: The Supreme Court’s Judgment
Tom Stevenson
Flip-Flops and Kalashnikovs
John Watts
Henry V: The Conscience of a King by Malcolm Vale. Yale, 308 pp., £20, August 2016, 978 0 300 14873 2
Inigo Thomas
At the Queen’s Gallery: David Hockney
Deborah Cohen
Dr James Barry: A Woman ahead of Her Time by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield. Oneworld, 479 pp., £16.99, August 2016, 978 1 78074 831 3
August Kleinzahler
Two Poems
Gavin Francis
Diary: NHS in Crisis
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