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Vol. 40 No. 16 · 30 August 2018
Ian Jack
Auntie’s War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton. Doubleday, 422 pp., £20, November 2017, 978 0 85752 332 7
Letters
Tim Halliday, Malcolm McGeoch, Paul F. Hoffman, Russell Seitz, Christopher Prendergast, Eric Kurlander, Brendan Kelly, Joseph Winkelman, Onni Gust, Alex Abramovich, Brian Ridsdale, Jeremy Harding, Martin Sanderson
Ange Mlinko
Poem: ‘Ducks’
Susan Pedersen
Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes by Diane Atkinson. Bloomsbury, 670 pp., £30, February 2018, 978 1 4088 4404 5 Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote by Jane Robinson. Doubleday, 374 pp., £20, January 2018, 978 0 85752 391 4
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’
Tariq Ali
Ants among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla. Daunt, 341 pp., £14.99, May 2018, 978 1 911547 20 4
Azadeh Moaveni
The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman: Paths to Conversion by Anabel Inge. Oxford, 320 pp., £16.99, May 2018, 978 0 19 088920 3 Veil by Rafia Zakaria. Bloomsbury, 160 pp., £9.99, September 2017, 978 1 5013 2277 8
Michael Hofmann
Two Poems
Stephen Sedley
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics and the Origins of the European Convention by Marco Duranti. Oxford, 502 pp., £59, February 2017, 978 0 19 981138 0
Mary Wellesley
Short Cuts: Making Parchment
Natasha Wheatley
The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter Judson. Harvard, 567 pp., £17.95, September 2018, 978 0 674 98676 3
Inigo Thomas
At the Shore
Adam Shatz
Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer. Hurst, 423 pp., £20, May 2018, 978 1 84904 988 7
Colin Burrow
The Long Take by Robin Robertson. Picador, 256 pp., £14.99, February 2018, 978 1 5098 4688 7
Marina Warner
Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics and Other Airborne Females by Serinity Young. Oxford, 432 pp., £19.99, May 2018, 978 0 19 530788 7
Matthew Bevis
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Writings edited by Josie Billington and Philip Davis. Oxford, 592 pp., £14.99, February 2018, 978 0 19 879763 0
Sally Rooney
Motherhood by Sheila Heti. Harvill Secker, 277 pp., £16.99, May 2018, 978 1 84655 837 5
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith. Hamish Hamilton, 464 pp., £20, February 2018, 978 0 241 14689 7
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘All’
Kieran Setiya
Philosophy within Its Proper Bounds by Edouard Machery. Oxford, 224 pp., £40, August 2017, 978 0 19 880752 0
Stephen W. Smith
Diary: Sankarism
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