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Vol. 41 No. 14 · 18 July 2019
Letters
Laura Moss, Huw Kyffin, Ian Rumfitt, Henry Day, Blaine Stothard, Peter Malpass, Colin Burrow, Ken Head, Adam Sisman, Richard Bunce, Ben Grant
John Lanchester
Good New Idea
Seamus Perry
W.S. Graham: New Selected Poems edited by Matthew Francis. Faber, 144 pp., £12.99, September 2018, 978 0 571 34844 2 W.S. Graham edited by Michael Hofmann. NYRB, 152 pp., £9.99, October 2018, 978 1 68137 276 1
Andrew O’Hagan
At the Grand Palais
Mike Jay
Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Culture, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class and of Kate and Ned Despard by Peter Linebaugh. California, 408 pp., £27, March 2019, 978 0 520 29946 7
William Davies
Short Cuts: Reasons to be Cheerful
Adam Tooze
Die Getriebenen: Merkel und die Flüchtlingspolitik – Report aus dem Innern der Macht by Robin Alexander. Siedler, 288 pp., €19.99, March 2017, 978 3 8275 0093 9 Die SPD: Biographie einer Partei von Ferdinand Lassalle bis Andrea Nahles by Franz Walter. Rowohlt, 416 pp., €16, June 2018, 978 3 499 63445 1 Germany’s Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe by Oliver Nachtwey, translated by Loren Balhorn and David Fernbach. Verso, 247 pp., £16.99, November 2018, 978 1 78663 634 8 Die Schulz Story: Ein Jahr zwischen Höhenflug und Absturz by Markus Feldenkirchen. DVA, 320 pp., €20, March 2018, 978 3 421 04821 9
Eleanor Nairne
At Tate Liverpool: Keith Haring
Michael Hofmann
The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Böll, translated by Leila Vennewitz. Penguin, 108 pp., £8.99, April 2019, 978 0 241 37038 4
Lucie Elven
The Girl on the Via Flaminia by Alfred Hayes. Penguin, 151 pp., £7.99, August 2018, 978 0 241 34232 9 My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes. Penguin, 119 pp., £7.99, May 2018, 978 0 241 34230 5 In Love by Alfred Hayes. Penguin, 120 pp., £7.99, January 2018, 978 0 241 30713 7
Stephanie Burt
On Sophie Collins
Owen Bennett-Jones
Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence and Deviance by Hassan Abbas. Hurst, 341 pp., £25, January 2018, 978 1 84904 715 9
Clare Bucknell
Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the 18th-Century Imagination by Noelle Gallagher. Yale, 288 pp., £55, March 2019, 978 0 300 21705 6
Steven Rose
Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science by Audra J. Wolfe. Johns Hopkins, 302 pp., £22, January 2019, 978 1 4214 2673 0
Brian Dillon
At the Duveen Galleries: ‘The Asset Strippers’
Chris Mullin
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-75 by Max Hastings. Collins, 722 pp., £9.99, May 2019, 978 0 00 813301 6
Cheli Durán
Diary: No me olvides
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