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Vol. 40 No. 13 · 5 July 2018
John Lanchester
After the Fall
Letters
Tony Sullivan, Anna Minton, Neil Blackshaw, Jessica Otey, Olaf Olsen, Roger Morsley-Smith, Rod Edmond, Nicky Hamlyn, Erika Owens, Ralph O’Connor, Andrew Tyrrell Hanson
Jo Glanville
The Journalistic Exemption
Thomas Jones
The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. Century, 513 pp., £20, June 2018, 978 1 78089 839 1
Keith Thomas
A Day at Home in Early Modern England: Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700 by Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson. Yale, 311 pp., £40, October 2017, 978 0 300 19501 9
Didier Fassin
Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation by Sophie Pedder. Bloomsbury, 297 pp., £25, June 2018, 978 1 4729 4860 1
Gwen Burnyeat
Short Cuts: The Colombian Peace Process
James Sheehan
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-23 by Robert Gerwarth. Allen Lane, 446 pp., £10.99, June 2017, 978 0 14 197637 2
Katherine Rundell
Consider the Lemur
Sarah Perry
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris. Allen Lane, 304 pp., £16.99, October 2017, 978 0 241 26249 8
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘My Skin Is’
Francis Wade
Fleas We Greatly Loathe
James Attlee
At Tate Modern: ‘Picasso 1932’
Eric Banks
The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey through Human History by Susanna Forrest. Atlantic, 418 pp., £9.99, October 2017, 978 0 85789 900 2 Farewell to the Horse: The Final Century of Our Relationship by Ulrich Raulff, translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp. Penguin, 448 pp., £9.99, February 2018, 978 0 14 198317 2
Adam Smyth
Albrecht Dürer: Documentary Biography by Jeffrey Ashcroft. Yale, 1216 pp., £95, January 2017, 978 0 300 21084 2
Paul Franz
On Ange Mlinko
Alex Harvey
Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald by David S. Brown. Harvard, 424 pp., £21.95, May 2017, 978 0 674 50482 0 ‘I’d Die for You’ and Other Lost Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Scribner, 384 pp., £9.99, April 2018, 978 1 4711 6473 6
Jane Campbell
Diary: The Rarest Bird in the World
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