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Vol. 39 No. 15 · 27 July 2017
Sheila Fitzpatrick
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine. Princeton, 1096 pp., £29.95, August 2017, 978 0 691 17694 9
Letters
Malcolm Deas, Alan Johnson, Anne Murray, Jacob Ecclestone, John Charlesworth, Anne Lonsdale, Will Bowers, Luke Butterly
Bee Wilson
Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra Special Talking Mongoose by Christopher Josiffe. Strange Attractor, 404 pp., £15.99, April 2017, 978 1 907222 48 1
Owen Hatherley
Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel. Knopf, 512 pp., £34, September 2016, 978 0 307 96190 7 Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring. Random House, 544 pp., £16.99, October 2016, 978 0 399 58960 7
Charles Hope
At the Ashmolean: Raphael’s Drawings
Colin Burrow
On Les Murray
Thomas Penn
Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England by Steven Gunn. Oxford, 393 pp., £60, August 2016, 978 0 19 965983 8
Andrew Bacevich
The General v. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War by H.W. Brands. Anchor, 438 pp., £21, November 2016, 978 0 385 54057 5
Michael Hofmann
Two Poems
John Barrell
‘The Meeting of the Waters’
Rosemary Hill
Short Cuts: What Writers Wear
Eleanor Birne
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy. Hamish Hamilton, 445 pp., £18.99, June 2017, 978 0 241 30397 9
Anthony Grafton
Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe by Victor Plahte Tschudi. Cambridge, 320 pp., £64.99, September 2016, 978 1 107 14986 1
Meehan Crist
The Voynich Manuscript edited by Raymond Clemens. Yale, 336 pp., £35, November 2016, 978 0 300 21723 0
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘She’
Jamie Martin
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis. Allen Lane, 362 pp., £25, December 2016, 978 0 241 25473 8
Theo Tait
White Tears by Hari Kunzru. Hamish Hamilton, 271 pp., £14.99, April 2017, 978 0 241 27295 4
Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Diary: Santería
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