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Vol. 41 No. 9 · 9 May 2019
Jenny Turner
k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher edited by Darren Ambrose. Repeater, 817 pp., £25, November 2018, 978 1 912248 28 5
Letters
Tim Towers, Eoin Dillon, Colin Cohen, Michael Neill, Ian Birchall, Sarah Richmond, John Taylor, Doina Percival, Daniel O’Neil, Jane Card, Rorie Fulton, Richard Tagart
Adam Shatz
Trump’s America, Netanyahu’s Israel
Tom Stevenson
AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing. Polity, 275 pp., £15.99, September 2018, 978 1 5095 3203 2
Stefan Collini
Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic by Marina MacKay. Oxford, 228 pp., £25, November 2018, 978 0 19 882499 2
Tom Crewe
Short Cuts: High on Our Own Supply
Freya Johnston
Samuel Johnson edited by David Womersley. Oxford, 1344 pp., £95, May 2018, 978 0 19 960951 2
Jamie McKendrick
Two Poems
Adam Mars-Jones
Armand V.: Footnotes to an Unexcavated Novel by Dag Solstad, translated by Steven Murray. Vintage, 256 pp., £11.99, May 2018, 978 1 78470 846 7 T. Singer by Dag Solstad, translated by Tiina Nunnally. Vintage, 272 pp., £9.99, May 2018, 978 1 78470 306 6
Rosa Curling
The Right to Protest
Ian Patterson
Machines like Me by Ian McEwan. Cape, 305 pp., £18.99, April 2019, 978 1 78733 166 2
Richard Taws
At the National Gallery: Louis-Léopold Boilly
Christian Davies
Under the Railway Line
Bee Wilson
Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant by Barbara Hosking. Biteback, 384 pp., £9.99, March 2019, 978 1 78590 462 2
Mary Hannity
Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison by Caitlin Davies. John Murray, 373 pp., £10.99, February 2019, 978 1 4736 4776 3
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Sisters Brothers’
Owen Hatherley
No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs by Lezlie Lowe. Coach House, 220 pp., £12.95, September 2018, 978 1 55245 370 4
Adewale Maja-Pearce
Diary: ‘Make Nigeria Great Again’
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