Vol. 40 No. 18 · 27 September 2018

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Vol. 40 No. 18 · 27 September 2018

Jackson Lears

Reporter by Seymour M. Hersh

Letters

Rhodri Lewis, J.G. Saunders, Oliver Miles, William Waldegrave, Anne Bottomley, Rory Johnston, Gillian Nelson, Raymond Clayton, David Campbell, Nancy O’Malley, Mark Liebenrood

Tom Crewe

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed Aids by David France
Patient Zero and the Making of the Aids Epidemic by Richard A. McKay
Modern Nature: The Journals of Derek Jarman, 1989-90 by Derek Jarman
Smiling in Slow Motion: The Journals of Derek Jarman, 1991-94 by Derek Jarman
The Ward by Gideon Mendel

Philippa Hetherington

Short Cuts: Canberra’s Coups

Lorna Finlayson

Corbyn Now

Diarmaid MacCulloch

In the Footsteps of King David: Revelations from an Ancient Biblical City by Yosef Garfinkel, Saar Ganor and Michael G. Hasel

Michael Hofmann

Emil Nolde: Colour Is Life 

Tim Parks

Memoirs from beyond the Grave 1768-1800 by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated by Alex Andriesse

Paul Nemser

Poem: ‘Border’

Stephen Mulhall

Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything by Graham Harman

Inigo Thomas

At Manchester Art Gallery: Annie Swynnerton

Mike Jay

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds by Lauren Slater

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘BlacKkKlansman’

Adam Mars-Jones

Normal People by Sally Rooney
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Freya Johnston

Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis by E.J. Clery

James Angelos

Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis

Will Harris

Poem: ‘The Seven Dreams of Richard Spencer’

John Burnside

Diary: Visits from the Night Hag

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