Vol. 41 No. 6 · 21 March 2019

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Cover Artist

Anne Rothenstein

Jeremy Harding

Among the Gilets Jaunes

Letters

Chris Cragg, John Perry, Paul Lusk, Christopher Gordon, Ben Bradley, Marc Dubin

Fleur Macdonald

In Saillans

Ferdinand Mount

‘Just get us out’

Madawi Al-Rasheed

The Saudi Lie

Michael Kulikowski

The Codex of Justinian translated by Fred H. Blume, edited by Bruce W. Frier. Cambridge, three vols, 2963 pp., £450, May 2016

Jonathan Parry

The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer and Public Intellectual by Roland Jackson. Oxford, 556 pp., £25, March 2018, 978 0 19 878895 9

Lieke Marsman, translated by Sophie Collins

Three Poems

Daniel Soar

Short Cuts: The Hitchens Principle

Michael Wood

The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht translated by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine. Norton, 1286 pp., £35, December 2018, 978 0 87140 767 2

Lavinia Greenlaw

This Bed Thy Centre by Pamela Hansford Johnson. Hodder, 288 pp., £8.99, October 2018, 978 1 4736 7985 6
An Impossible Marriage by Pamela Hansford Johnson. Hodder, 352 pp., £8.99, October 2018, 978 1 4736 7980 1
The Last Resort by Pamela Hansford Johnson. Hodder, 352 pp., £8.99, October 2018, 978 1 4736 7994 8
The Holiday Friend by Pamela Hansford Johnson. Hodder, 272 pp., £8.99, October 2018, 978 1 4736 7987 0

Alice Spawls

At Tate Modern: Pierre Bonnard

Merve Emre

Monkey Grip by Helen Garner. Text, 333 pp., £14.99, January 2019, 978 1 925773 15 6
The Children’s Bach by Helen Garner. Text, 160 pp., £12.99, October 2018, 978 1 925773 04 0

Rosemary Hill

Marketable Values: Inventing the Property Market in Modern Britain by Desmond Fitz-Gibbon. Chicago, 240 pp., £79, January 2019, 978 0 226 58416 4

Michele Pridmore-Brown

Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer. Norton, 316 pp., £20, June 2018, 978 0 393 60964 6

Jérôme Tubiana and Clotilde Warin

Diary: Migrant Flows

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