Vol. 39 No. 23 · 30 November 2017

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Anne Rothenstein

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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

Adam Mars-Jones

Solar Bones by Mike McCormack

Dave Lindorff

Short Cuts: Medical Fraud

Jack Shenker

The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette

James Meek

The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction by Mark Lilla

Stephanie Burt

On Hera Lindsay Bird

Blake Morrison

The Inky Digit of Defiance: Selected Prose 1966-2016 by Tony Harrison, edited by Edith Hall
Collected Poems by Tony Harrison

John-Paul Stonard

At the Courtauld: Chaïm Soutine

Jonathan Parry

The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer

Tom Stammers

Liberty or Death: The French Revolution by Peter McPhee

Anna Della Subin

The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri, translated by Elias Muhanna

Claire Potter

Poem: ‘Four Paragraphs on Winter Swimming’

Andrew O’Hagan

The Death of the ‘Fronsac’ by Neal Ascherson

David Morley

Poem: ‘Yarak’

Chloë Daniel

Hannah’s Dress: Berlin 1904-2014 by Pascale Hugues, translated by C. Jon Delogu and Nick Somers

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Murder on the Orient Express’

Anne Diebel

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

Vadim Nikitin

Diary: In Murmansk

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