Vol. 39 No. 6 · 16 March 2017
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Vol. 39 No. 6 · 16 March 2017
Letters
Sarah Walker, Richard Gordon, Christopher Eddy, Peter M. Smith, Clifford Story, Maureen Miller, Michael Trapp, Bruno George, Christopher Lord
David Runciman
Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister by Rosa Prince. Biteback, 402 pp., £20, February 2017, 978 1 78590 145 4
Mary Beard
Women in Power: From Medusa to Merkel
Bee Wilson
Claretta: Mussolini’s Last Lover by R.J.B. Bosworth. Yale, 312 pp., £18.99, February 2017, 978 0 300 21427 7
Alice Spawls
At the Pompidou: Twombly’s Literariness
Jeremy Harding
Candidate Macron
R.W. Johnson
Power and Glory: France’s Secret Wars with Britain and America, 1945-2016 by R.T. Howard. Biteback, 344 pp., £20, October 2016, 978 1 78590 116 4
Rivka Galchen
Kafka: The Early Years by Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch. Princeton, 564 pp., £27.95, November 2016, 978 0 691 15198 4
Theo Tait
The Blot: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem. Cape, 289 pp., £16.99, February 2017, 978 0 224 10148 6 The Blot by Jonathan Lethem and Laurence Rickels. Anti-Oedipus, 88 pp., £6.99, September 2016, 978 0 9905733 7 1
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘Fate, Federal Court, Moon’
Jeremy Adler
The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, translated by Mike Mitchell. Dedalus, 433 pp., £13.99, April 2017, 978 1 903517 42 0
J. Jason Mitchell
Short Cuts: The Libyan Coastguard
Jonathan Rée
The Collected Works of Spinoza Vol. II edited and translated by Edwin Curley. Princeton, 769 pp., £40.95, June 2016, 978 0 691 16763 3
Gavin Jacobson
The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution by Timothy Tackett. Harvard, 463 pp., £25, February 2015, 978 0 674 73655 9
George Letsas
Brexit and the Constitution
Harry Strawson
Diary: The British National Corpus
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