Vol. 46 No. 8 · 25 April 2024

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Cover Artist

Helen Napper

Letters

Robert Lethbridge, Peter Gillman, Elizabeth Benedict, Ira Katznelson, Stephen Adamson, Mark Sinker, Adam Lechmere, Gerard Hastings, David Flusfeder, Allen Schill

Terry Eagleton

Where does culture come from?

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘No One Today’

Sophie Smith

How to Think like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna. Grove, 296 pp., £9.99, March, 978 1 80471 002 9
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy edited by Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro. Routledge, 638 pp., £215, June 2023, 978 1 138 21275 6

Alexandra Walsham

Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment: The English and Scottish Experience by Michael Hunter. Cambridge, 223 pp., £30, July 2023, 978 1 009 26877 6

Tom Crewe

James and John: A True Story of Prejudice and Murder by Chris Bryant. Bloomsbury, 313 pp., £25, February, 978 1 5266 4497 8

Emily LaBarge

At the Perimeter: On Shuvinai Ashoona

Martin Loughlin

Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn and Forge a Democracy for All by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. Viking, 368 pp., £20, October 2023, 978 0 241 58620 4

Alexander Clapp

‘Rip their skin off’

Chris Lintott

Short Cuts: Total Eclipse

Greg Afinogenov

The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814-1914 by Alexander Morrison. Cambridge, 613 pp., £35.99, August 2022, 978 1 107 03030 5
Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia by Maziar Behrooz. I.B. Tauris, 214 pp., £21.99, May 2023, 978 0 7556 3737 9

Susannah Clapp

On Pockets

Tim Parks

My Friends by Hisham Matar. Viking, 458 pp., £18.99, January, 978 0 241 40948 0

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘The Delinquents’

John Kerrigan

The Letters of Seamus Heaney edited by Christopher Reid. Faber, 820 pp., £40, October 2023, 978 0 571 34108 5

Charles Hope

Painting in 15th-Century Italy: This Splendid and Noble Art by Diane Cole Ahl. Yale, 320 pp., £55, October 2023, 978 0 300 26961 1

Freya Johnston

The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought by Philip Smallwood. Cambridge, 219 pp., £85, September 2023, 978 1 009 36999 2

Christopher Siwicki

At the Capitoline Museums: ‘Fidia’

Nicole Flattery

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt. Bloomsbury, 342 pp., £9.99, April, 978 1 5266 4692 7

Eyal Weizman

Diary: Three Genocides

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