Vol. 39 No. 24 · 14 December 2017

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Vol. 39 No. 24 · 14 December 2017

Neal Ascherson

Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman

Letters

Sophie Smith, Michael Orgel, Adrian Bowyer, Geoffrey Watson, Kate Llewellyn, Petr Favorov, Donald Mead, Anthony Verity, Jake Soule, Philip Stevens

Daniel Soar

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Stephen Sedley

Confidence and Supply

Jean McNicol

A Woman’s Work by Harriet Harman
The Women Who Shaped Politics by Sophy Ridge

Patrick Cockburn

As the Wars End

Rory Scothorne

Short Cuts: Class before Nation

Michael Hofmann

Collected Poems by Thomas Bernhard, translated by James Reidel

Katherine Rundell

At the British Library: Harry Potter

Eric Foner

The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering The Story of an Early American Crisis by James E. Lewis Jr.

Wolfgang Streeck

The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony by Perry Anderson
The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci by Perry Anderson

Matthew Bevis

Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow

James Cahill

At the Royal Academy: Dalí and Duchamp

Nicholas Penny

The Auctioneer: A Memoir of Great Art, Legendary Collectors and Record-Breaking Auctions by Simon de Pury and William Stadiem
Rogues’ Gallery: A History of Art and Its Dealers by Philip Hook
Donald Judd: Writings edited by Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray

James Arthur

Poem: ‘Tree-Planting’

Ruth Scurr

Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives by Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, edited by Nancy Luxon, translated by Thomas Scott-Railton

Nick Richardson

From a Distant Solar System

Michael Wood

Proust and His Banker: In Search of Time Squandered by Gian Balsamo

Tariq Ali

Could it have been avoided?

William Carter

Diary: The Case of the Missing Barrels

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