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Vol. 40 No. 14 · 19 July 2018
Catherine Hall
Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833 by Daniel Livesay. North Carolina, 448 pp., £45, January 2018, 978 1 4696 3443 2
Letters
Jefferson Morley, Thomas Powers, Lawrence Paulson, Owen Sanderson, Euan Mackinnon, Chris Moore, Judith Adamson
Michael Wood
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Serpent’s Tail, 413 pp., £9.99, August 2018, 978 1 78125 864 4
Patrick Cockburn
The War in Five Sieges
Perry Anderson
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling. Hamish Hamilton, 509 pp., £25, October 2017, 978 0 241 14383 4
David Wheatley
Poem: ‘Landscape with Heavy Industry and Washing Line’
Barbara Newman
Conduct Becoming: Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages by Glenn Burger. Pennsylvania, 262 pp., £50, September 2017, 978 0 8122 4960 6
Neal Ascherson
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery. Duke, 344 pp., £20.99, May 2018, 978 0 8223 7081 9
Rae Armantrout
Two Poems
Namara Smith
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday. Granta, 275 pp., £14.99, March 2018, 978 1 78378 360 1
Mahmood Mamdani
The African University
John-Paul Stonard
At the Guggenheim Bilbao: Marc Chagall
John Lahr
Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos by Clancy Sigal. Icon, 352 pp., £12.99, May 2018, 978 1 78578 439 2 The London Lover: My Weekend that Lasted Thirty Years by Clancy Sigal. Bloomsbury, 274 pp., £20, May 2018, 978 1 4088 8580 2
Amjad Iraqi
Short Cuts: Anti-BDS Law
Jonathan Meades
The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Postwar Britain by Lynda Nead. Yale, 416 pp., £35, October 2017, 978 0 300 21460 4
Malcolm Gaskill
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America by Sam White. Harvard, 361 pp., £23.95, October 2017, 978 0 674 97192 9
Jeremy Harding
Diary: My ’68
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