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Vol. 39 No. 16 · 17 August 2017
John Lanchester
The Attention Merchants: From the Daily Newspaper to Social Media, How Our Time and Attention Is Harvested and Sold by Tim Wu. Atlantic, 416 pp., £20, January 2017, 978 1 78239 482 2 Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine by Antonio García Martínez. Ebury, 528 pp., £8.99, June 2017, 978 1 78503 455 8 Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon have Cornered Culture and What It Means for All of Us by Jonathan Taplin. Macmillan, 320 pp., £18.99, May 2017, 978 1 5098 4769 3
Letters
Noam Chomsky, Sam Solecki, Michael Berger, David Bromwich, Ken Famiala, Duncan Wheeler, Jeremy Harding, Hanna Holborn Gray, Michael Littlewood, Gillian Darley, Fabian Acker, Richard Wilson
Inigo Thomas
In for the Kill
Neal Ascherson
Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea by Jan Rüger. Oxford, 370 pp., £25, January 2017, 978 0 19 967246 2
Tom Crewe
The New Deal
Sionaidh Douglas-Scott
Short Cuts: The Withdrawal Bill
Marina Warner
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas Laqueur. Princeton, 711 pp., £27.95, October 2015, 978 0 691 15778 8
Jeremy Harding
At Tate Modern: Giacometti
Patrick Cockburn
Endtimes in Mosul
Eley Williams
Poem: ‘Slough’
Ben Ehrenreich
The Leveller
Barbara Newman
The Medieval Invention of Travel by Shayne Aaron Legassie. Chicago, 287 pp., £22, April 2017, 978 0 226 44662 2
Diane Williams
Story: ‘‘Oh, Darling I’m in the Garden’’
Anne Wagner
The Women of ‘Guernica’
T.J. Clark
Picasso and Tragedy
Barbara Graziosi
Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher by Edward J. Watts. Oxford, 205 pp., £19.99, April 2017, 978 0 19 021003 8
John Burnside
Poem: ‘Wedding Season’
Thomas Keymer
AHistory of English Autobiography edited by Adam Smyth. Cambridge, 437 pp., £64.99, June 2016, 978 1 107 07841 3
Jonathan Raban
Granny in the Doorway
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Dunkirk’
Ned Beauman
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer. Fourth Estate, 323 pp., £12.99, June 2017, 978 0 00 815917 7
Joanna Biggs
Diary: Abortion in Northern Ireland
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