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Vol. 40 No. 23 · 6 December 2018
Patricia Lockwood
Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin. Picador, 256 pp., £14.99, November 2018, 978 1 5098 8229 8 Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs by Lucia Berlin. Picador, 160 pp., £12.99, November 2018, 978 1 5098 8234 2
Letters
Karl Sabbagh, Sebastian Cody, Mark Ford, Marina Warner, Frank Wintle, Alistair Mant, Kitty Burns Florey, Andrew McLeod, John Street, Sue Kibby, Richard Allison
James Meek
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger. Canongate, 464 pp., £20, September 2018, 978 1 78689 093 1
Rosemary Hill
The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy, edited by Hugo Vickers. Zuleika, 335 pp., £25, September 2018, 978 1 9997770 3 6
Jeremy Harding
Mimesis: African Soldier by John Akomfrah. Imperial War Museum, until 30 March 2018
Patrick Wright
Short Cuts: The Moral of Brenley Corner
Thomas Meaney
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World by A.J. Baime. Doubleday, 431 pp., £20, February 2018, 978 0 85752 366 2 The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steil. Oxford, 606 pp., £25, March 2018, 978 0 19 875791 7
Thomas Jones
Brutus: The Noble Conspirator by Kathryn Tempest. Yale, 314 pp., £25, October 2017, 978 0 300 18009 1
Mike Jay
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy. Allen Lane, 404 pp., £20, May 2018, 978 0 241 34902 1
Rory Scothorne
Tom Nairn: ‘Painting Nationalism Red’? by Neal Ascherson. Democratic Left Scotland, 27 pp., £4, February 2018
Anne Wagner
Sophie Taeuber-Arp and the Avant Garde: A Biography by Roswitha Mair, translated by Damion Searls. Chicago, 222 pp., £41.50, September 2018, 978 0 226 31121 0
Esther Chadwick
At Tate Modern: Anni Albers
Christopher Tayler
The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary, translated by Jonathan Griffin. Godine, 434 pp., $18.95, November 2018, 978 1 56792 626 2 Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary, translated by John Markham Beach. Penguin, 314 pp., £9.99, September 2018, 978 0 241 34763 8
Martha Sprackland
Poem: ‘Newcomer’
Andrew Lowry
Diary: Pyongyang’s Missing Millions
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