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Vol. 39 No. 23 · 30 November 2017
Colm Tóibín
The Road to Reading Gaol
Letters
Marta Umińska, Graham Chainey, Johan Enegren, Andrew Livingston, Willy McCourt, Malcolm Gaskill, Ruth Valentine, Colin Quinney, Elizabeth Darling, Oxford Brookes University<br />Lynne Walker, Institute of Historical Research, London WC1, Lawrence Rosen, Phil Thompson, Chris Yates, Trevor Turner, Paul Griseri
Steven Mithen
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott. Yale, 336 pp., £20, September 2017, 978 0 300 18291 0
Adam Mars-Jones
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack. Canongate, 272 pp., £8.99, May 2017, 978 1 78689 127 3
Dave Lindorff
Short Cuts: Medical Fraud
Jack Shenker
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette. Melville House, 220 pp., £10.99, June 2016, 978 0 9934149 0 9
James Meek
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla. Harper, 160 pp., £19, August 2017, 978 0 06 269743 1 The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction by Mark Lilla. NYRB, 166 pp., £9.99, September 2016, 978 1 59017 902 4
Stephanie Burt
On Hera Lindsay Bird
Blake Morrison
The Inky Digit of Defiance: Selected Prose 1966-2016 by Tony Harrison, edited by Edith Hall. Faber, 544 pp., £25, April 2017, 978 0 571 32503 0 Collected Poems by Tony Harrison. Penguin, 464 pp., £9.99, April 2016, 978 0 241 97435 3
John-Paul Stonard
At the Courtauld: Chaïm Soutine
Jonathan Parry
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer. Random House, 912 pp., £30, September 2017, 978 1 84794 742 0
Tom Stammers
Liberty or Death: The French Revolution by Peter McPhee. Yale, 468 pp., £14.99, July 2017, 978 0 300 22869 4
Anna Della Subin
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri, translated by Elias Muhanna. Penguin, 352 pp., £11.99, October 2016, 978 0 14 310748 4
Claire Potter
Poem: ‘Four Paragraphs on Winter Swimming’
Andrew O’Hagan
The Death of the ‘Fronsac’ by Neal Ascherson. Apollo, 393 pp., £18.99, August 2017, 978 1 78669 437 9
David Morley
Poem: ‘Yarak’
Chloë Daniel
Hannah’s Dress: Berlin 1904-2014 by Pascale Hugues, translated by C. Jon Delogu and Nick Somers. Polity, 250 pp., £20, March 2017, 978 1 5095 0981 2
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Murder on the Orient Express’
Anne Diebel
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan. Corsair, 448 pp., £16.99, October 2017, 978 1 4721 5087 5
Vadim Nikitin
Diary: In Murmansk
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