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Vol. 39 No. 18 · 21 September 2017
Pankaj Mishra
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce. Little, Brown, 240 pp., £16.99, May 2017, 978 1 4087 1041 8 The Fate of the West: Battle to Save the World’s Most Successful Political Idea by Bill Emmott. Economist, 257 pp., £22, May 2017, 978 1 61039 780 3 The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics by David Goodhart. Hurst, 256 pp., £20, March 2017, 978 1 84904 799 9 The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla. Harper, 143 pp., £20, August 2017, 978 0 06 269743 1 The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray. Bloomsbury, 343 pp., £18.99, May 2017, 978 1 4729 4224 1
Letters
Marisol Hutchison, Gavin Francis, Derek Summerfield, David Taylor Johannesen, A.C. Willment, John Sweeney, Malcolm Deas, Michael Neill, Jonathan Sawday, Debbie Bookchin, Kenneth Baker, The Editors, Hugo Blake, Joseph Nuttgens, Musab Younis, Peter Smith
Tom Crewe
Short Cuts: The State of Statuary
Thomas Meaney
In the Centre of the Centre
David Thomson
The Vietnam War directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. PBS, ten episodes
August Kleinzahler
The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life by Karin Roffman. Farrar, Straus, 316 pp., £25.50, June 2017, 978 0 374 29384 0
Eleanor Birne
At Tate Modern: Fahrelnissa Zeid
Susan Pedersen
Seven Lives from Mass Observation: Britain in the Late 20th Century by James Hinton. Oxford, 207 pp., £25, October 2016, 978 0 19 878713 6
Mary-Kay Wilmers
John Sturrock
Ian Patterson
On Keston Sutherland
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Facing the Revocation: Huguenot Families, Faith, and the King’s Will by Carolyn Chappell Lougee. Oxford, 488 pp., £37.99, December 2016, 978 0 19 024131 5
Robert F. Worth
The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton. Faber, 312 pp., £14.99, August 2017, 978 0 571 33517 6 Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt by Yasmine El Rashidi. Tim Duggan, 181 pp., £11.70, June 2017, 978 0 7704 3729 9
Paul Grimstad
The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge. Penguin, 389 pp., £19.99, March 2017, 978 1 101 98108 5
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Detroit’
Christopher Tayler
Twin Peaks: The Return created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. Showtime/Sky Atlantic, 18 episodes, 21 May 2017 to 3 September 2017
Swati Dhingra and Nikhil Datta
How Not to Do Trade Deals
Anne Enright
Diary: Call Yourself George
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