Vol. 40 No. 10 · 24 May 2018
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Vol. 40 No. 10 · 24 May 2018
Tariq Ali
That was the year that was
Letters
Satvinder Juss, Danny Dorling, Caroline Walker, Anthony Barnett, David Edgerton, Augustus Young, Paul Dean, Tony Tribe, Andrew McDonald
Stephen Frears
The First Protest
Steven Shapin
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age by David N. Schwartz. Basic, 448 pp., £26.99, December 2017, 978 0 465 07292 7
Sally Rooney
An Irish Problem
Henry Siegman
The Two-State Solution: An Autopsy
Tessa Hadley
Images and Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo. Pushkin, 384 pp., £12.99, February 2017, 978 1 78227 266 3 War in Val d’Orcia by Iris Origo. Pushkin, 320 pp., £9.99, February 2017, 978 1 78227 265 6 A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-40 by Iris Origo. Pushkin, 200 pp., £14.99, October 2017, 978 1 78227 355 4 A Study in Solitude: The Life of Leopardi by Iris Origo. Pushkin, 416 pp., £12.99, June 2017, 978 1 78227 268 7 The Last Attachment by Iris Origo. Pushkin, 576 pp., £12.99, June 2017, 978 1 78227 267 0
Chris Mullin
Short Cuts: Parliamentary Priorities
Ella George
Purges and Paranoia
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Awful Truth’
Christopher Turner
On Richard Hollis
Michael Hofmann
Florida by Lauren Groff. Heinemann, 275 pp., £14.99, June 2018, 978 1 78515 188 0
James Brookes
Poem: ‘Raven George’
Mark Ford
Zone: Selected Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated by Ron Padgett. NYRB, 251 pp., £9.99, January 2016, 978 1 59017 924 6 Selected Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated by Martin Sorrell. Oxford, 281 pp., £9.99, November 2015, 978 0 19 968759 6
Oliver Hill-Andrews
Popularising Science: The Life and Work of J.B.S. Haldane by Krishna Dronamraju. Oxford, 367 pp., £26.99, February 2017, 978 0 19 933392 9
Rosemary Hill
On the Titanic: ‘Ocean Liners’ at the V&A
Sionaidh Douglas-Scott
Without Map or Compass
Deborah Friedell
Diary: The Heart and the Fist
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