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Vol. 41 No. 15 · 1 August 2019
Letters
Clemens Driessen, Anna Coote; Ian Gough, Martin Ryle, John Gillingham, Ian Gowans, Cinzia Arruzza, Nancy Fraser; Tithi Bhattacharya, Lorna Finlayson, John Krige, Rory Allen, Richard Gaunt, The Editors
Thomas Meaney
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew. Harvard, 330 pp., £23.95, April 2018, 978 0 674 28607 8 Revolutionaries for the Right Anti-Communist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War by Kyle Burke. North Carolina, 337 pp., June 2018, 978 1 4696 4073 0
Yun Sheng
Little Reunions by Eileen Chang, translated by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz. NYRB, 352 pp., £9.99, February 2019, 978 1 68137 127 6
Lorna Finlayson
Short Cuts: The Rot
James Meek
The Two Jacobs
Sheila Fitzpatrick
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by Eleonory Gilburd. Harvard, 458 pp., £28.95, January 2019, 978 0 674 98071 6
Terry Eagleton
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle. Allen Lane, 368 pp., £25, April 2019, 978 0 241 28358 5
Julian Bell
At Tate Britain: Van Gogh
Diarmaid MacCulloch
St Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland’s Patron Saint by Roy Flechner. Princeton, 320 pp., £22, March 2019, 978 0 691 18464 7
Christopher Tayler
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez. Soft Skull, 172 pp., £12.50, August 2019, 978 1 59376 582 8 The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. Virago, 213 pp., £8.99, February 2019, 978 0 349 01281 0
Ben Walker
At the British Museum: Manga
Elisa Gabbert
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor. Picador, 341 pp., £14.99, April 2019, 978 1 5290 0766 4
Colin Grant
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David Blight. Simon and Schuster, 892 pp., £30, November 2018, 978 1 4165 9031 6
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘Moto Poeta’
Norma Clarke
Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s by Steven King. McGill, 480 pp., £27.99, February 2019, 978 0 7735 5649 2
Michael Wood
At the Movies: Agnès Varda
Francis Gooding
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells. Allen Lane, 320 pp., £20, February 2019, 978 0 241 35521 3
Tom Crewe
Diary: The Queen and I
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