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Vol. 39 No. 14 · 13 July 2017
William Davies
Reasons for Corbyn
Letters
Nicholas Tracy, Naomi Hossain, Chris Knight, Hilary Rose, Helen Gough, Peter Holt, Richard Carter, Dick Pountain, John Cunningham, Emily Witt, Raymond Clayton, Mike Connelly, Patrick Ainley
Anne Stillman
Jean Cocteau: A Life by Claude Arnaud, translated by Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandell. Yale, 1024 pp., £30, September 2016, 978 0 300 17057 3
David Bromwich
The Age of Detesting Trump
Simon Wren-Lewis
Short Cuts: Magic Money Trees
Adam Mars-Jones
The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin. Pantheon, 222 pp., £20, October 2016, 978 0 307 91162 9
Daniel Trilling
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones. Verso, 208 pp., £16.99, October 2016, 978 1 78478 471 3 Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier. Allen Lane, 288 pp., £20, March 2017, 978 0 241 28923 5 No Borders: The Politics of Immigration Control and Resistance by Natasha King. Zed, 208 pp., £16.99, October 2016, 978 1 78360 467 8
Colin Burrow
On Philip Terry
Namara Smith
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood. Allen Lane, 333 pp., £14.99, May 2017, 978 1 84614 920 7
Sean Borodale
Two Poems
Sheila Heti
The First Wife by Paulina Chiziane, translated by David Brookshaw. Archipelago, 250 pp., £14.99, August 2016, 978 0 914671 48 0
Julian Bell
In Cardiff: Gillian Ayres
Stefan Collini
Ark of Civilisation: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-45 edited by Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider and Jaś Elsner. Oxford, 396 pp., £75, March 2017, 978 0 19 968755 8
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘I’m Reading Your Mind’
Steven Shapin
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari. Vintage, 528 pp., £9.99, March 2017, 978 1 78470 393 6
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Wonder Woman’
Lawrence Goldman
Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist by Laura Beers. Harvard, 568 pp., £23.95, October 2016, 978 0 674 97152 3
Duncan Wheeler
Diary: Bullfighting
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