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Vol. 40 No. 2 · 25 January 2018
Gavin Francis
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney. Jonathan Cape, 352 pp., £20, June 2017, 978 1 910702 37 6
Letters
Clare Short, Frances Butler, Luke Harding, Jackson Lears, Steve Bruce, Bill Asquith, Rick Osborn, Francis Gilbert, Danny Dorling, Michael Rosen, Martin Caiger-Smith, Rhoda Koenig, Cory Stockwell, Kenneth Champeon, David Martin, Simon Down
Colm Tóibín
The Playboy of West 29th Street
T.J. Clark
Cézanne Portraits National Portrait Gallery, London, until 11 February 2019Cézanne Portraits National Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 March 2018 to 1 July 2018
Colin Kidd
Fall Out: A Year Of Political Mayhem by Tim Shipman. William Collins, 559 pp., £25, November 2017, 978 0 00 826438 3
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘Chauncey Hare’
Max Hastings
My Lai: Vietnam, 1968 and the Descent into Darkness by Howard Jones. Oxford, 504 pp., £22.99, June 2017, 978 0 19 539360 6
Barclay Bram
At the Jianchuan Chongqing: Eight Million Things
Jonathan Steele
The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad. Allen Lane, 710 pp., £30, August 2017, 978 0 241 01131 7
Donald MacKenzie
Short Cuts: Wall Street’s Fear Gauge
Josephine Quinn
Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure by Paul Veyne, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Chicago, 88 pp., £17, April 2017, 978 0 226 42782 9
Deborah Friedell
At the Renwick: Death, in a Nutshell
Lorna Finlayson
Butterfly Politics by Catharine MacKinnon. Harvard, 490 pp., £23.95, April 2017, 978 0 674 41660 4
Frances Leviston
Poem: ‘Emily’s Electrical Absence’
Adam Mars-Jones
Mother Land by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 509 pp., £20, November 2017, 978 0 241 14498 5
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Memories of Underdevelopment’
Patrick McGuinness
Selected Poems by Nancy Cunard. Carcanet, 304 pp., £12.99, October 2016, 978 1 78410 236 4
David Runciman
Diary: AI
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