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Vol. 39 No. 17 · 7 September 2017
Ferdinand Mount
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor. Hurst, 295 pp., £20, March 2017, 978 1 84904 808 8 The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise by Kartar Lalvani. Bloomsbury, 433 pp., £25, March 2016, 978 1 4729 2482 7 India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire by Jon Wilson. Simon & Schuster, 564 pp., £12.99, August 2017, 978 1 4711 0126 7
Letters
Elizabeth Gabriel, Ben Bethell, Abby Lippman, Robin Garner, Tom Rivers, Johnnie Bicket, Nicholas Murray, John Davies, Ruth Evans, Stephen Pickles, James Hall, Frank Conley, Oliver Lewis, Gary Wilder, David Lehmann
Rosemary Hill
Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life by Sally Bedell Smith. Michael Joseph, 624 pp., £25, April 2017, 978 0 7181 8780 4 The Duchess: The Untold Story by Penny Junor. William Collins, 320 pp., £20, June 2017, 978 0 00 821100 4
Malise Ruthven
The Saudi Trillions
Tristan McConnell
In Kisumu
Adam Shatz
Wrecking Ball
Eliot Weinberger
Story: ‘Not Recommended Reading’
Amia Srinivasan
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith. Collins, 255 pp., £20, March 2017, 978 0 00 822627 5 The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery. Simon & Schuster, 272 pp., £8.99, April 2016, 978 1 4711 4675 6
Colm Tóibín
Short Cuts: In Barcelona
Michael Wood
Lettres à la marquise: correspondance inédite avec Marie Arconati Visconti by Alfred Dreyfus, edited by Philippe Oriol. Grasset, 592 pp., £19, March 2017, 978 2 246 85965 9
Brian Dillon
At Tate Britain: Queer British Art
Peter Green
Athens Burning: The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica by Robert Garland. Johns Hopkins, 170 pp., £15, February 2017, 978 1 4214 2196 4
Ralf Webb
Poem: ‘Mobile Home Park’
Malcolm Gaskill
Accidents and Violent Death in Early Modern London, 1650-1750 by Craig Spence. Boydell, 273 pp., £65, November 2016, 978 1 78327 135 1
Colin Burrow
Theory of the Lyric by Jonathan Culler. Harvard, 391 pp., £19.95, September 2017, 978 0 674 97970 3
Michael Hofmann
Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley Williams. Influx, 169 pp., £9.99, March 2017, 978 1 910312 16 2 Frit by Eley Williams. Sad, 35 pp., £6, April 2017
Thomas Jones
Anna by Niccolò Ammaniti, translated by Jonathan Hunt. Canongate, 261 pp., £12.99, August 2017, 978 1 78211 834 3
John Burnside
Two Poems
May Jeong
Diary: Femicide in Kandahar
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