Vol. 40 No. 21 · 8 November 2018

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Vol. 40 No. 21 · 8 November 2018

Fredric Jameson

My Struggle: Book 6. The End by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Martin Aitken and Don Bartlett. Harvill Secker, 1153 pp., £25, August 2018, 978 1 84655 829 0

Letters

Claudia Koonz, John Rickard, David Elstein, Nicholas Blake, Amanda Craig, Colin Burrow, John Clegg, The Editors, David Wasserstein, Brian Mossop, Richard Lomax, Dave Morris

Michael Wood

The Third Man & Other Stories by Graham Greene. Macmillan, 342 pp., £9.99, July 2017, 978 1 5098 2805 0

Malcolm Gaskill

Plot 6, Row C, Grave 15

Inigo Thomas

Along the Voie Sacrée

Swati Dhingra and Josh De Lyon

What would it be like?

Denise Riley

Poem: ‘Slow Burn’

Jane Campbell

The Year of My Father’s Dying

Stephen Alford

Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Allen Lane, 752 pp., £30, September 2018, 978 1 84614 429 5

Rosemary Hill

Short Cuts: Successive John Murrays

William Davies

Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Melinda Cooper. Zone, 447 pp., £24, March 2017, 978 1 935408 84 0

Hugo Williams

Poem: ‘Tara Browne (1945-66)’

Peter Howarth

21st-Century Oxford Authors: Algernon Charles Swinburne edited by Francis O’Gorman. Oxford, 722 pp., £95, December 2016, 978 0 19 967224 0

Adam Mars-Jones

Big Books

Stefan Collini

The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller. Princeton, 220 pp., £19.95, February 2018, 978 0 691 17495 2
The Metric Tide by James Wilsdon et al. Sage, 168 pp., £19.99, February 2016, 978 1 4739 7306 0

Alice Spawls

‘Killing Eve’

Tessa Hadley

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje. Cape, 299 pp., £16.99, June 2018, 978 1 78733 071 9

Robert Drury

Diary: A Kazakh Scam

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