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Vol. 40 No. 4 · 22 February 2018

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Vol. 40 No. 4 · 22 February 2018

Jacqueline Rose

Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus by Vanessa Grigoriadis
Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus by Laura Kipnis
Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Letters

Moira Dustin, David Ollier Weber, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Lorna Finlayson, Donald MacKenzie, Diana Neslen, Dianne Mitchell, Fabian Acker

Inigo Thomas

Short Cuts: At the Ladbroke Arms

Abigail Parry

Poem: ‘The nine lives you might have lived, were it not for the nine thin spells through your heart’

Meehan Crist

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilised World by Jeff Goodell

Francis Gooding

Palaeoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past by Zoë Lescaze

Pankaj Mishra

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nicolas Pelham

The Precarious Rise of the Gulf Despots

Emily Hasler

Poem: ‘The Valley of the Stour with Dedham in the Distance’

John Lahr

Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Phantom Thread’

J. Robert Lennon

Kurt Vonnegut: Complete Stories edited by Jerome Klinkowitz and Dan Wakefield

Katherine Rundell

Consider the Pangolin

Colm Tóibín

His Spittin’ Image

Jamie McKendrick

Two Poems

Richard J. Evans

Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts by Daniel Siemens

Adrian West

At the Prado: Mariano Fortuny y Marsal

Rory Scothorne

The New Poverty by Stephen Armstrong
Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey

Rupert Beale

Diary: Edit Your Own Genes

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