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Vol. 41 No. 16 · 15 August 2019
On Johnson’s Britain
Neal Ascherson, Mary Beard, Jonathan Coe, Tom Crewe, William Davies, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Lorna Finlayson, Daniel Finn, Katrina Forrester, Jeremy Harding, Daisy Hildyard, Colin Kidd, James Meek, Ferdinand Mount, Jan-Werner Müller, Jonathan Parry, David Runciman
Letters
Stuart Schrader, Norman Rimmell, Roy Flechner, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Ursula Huws, Madhura Swaminathan, Norman Dombey, John Robinson, Robert Hunter, William Baker, Norman Toynton, Glyn Thompson
Chaohua Wang
Hong Kong v. Beijing
Emily Witt
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli. Fourth Estate, 128 pp., £6.99, October 2017, 978 0 00 827192 3 Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli. Fourth Estate, 385 pp., £16.99, March 2019, 978 0 00 829002 3
T.J. Clark
At the Barbican: Lee Krasner
Tim Parks
Arturo’s Island by Elsa Morante, translated by Ann Goldstein. Pushkin, 370 pp., £9.99, May 2019, 978 1 78227 495 7
Thomas Jones
Deviation by Luce d’Eramo, translated by Anne Milano Appel. Pushkin, 347 pp., £20, January 2019, 978 1 78227 388 2
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Intimation’
Benjamin Lytal
Horizon by Barry Lopez. Bodley Head, 572 pp., £25, March 2019, 978 1 84792 577 0
Inigo Thomas
Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race by Roger D. Launius. Yale, 256 pp., £20, July 2019, 978 0 300 23046 8 The Moon: A History for the Future by Oliver Morton. Economist Books, 334 pp., £20, May 2019, 978 1 78816 254 8
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book
Alexander Zevin
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian. Harvard, 381 pp., £25.95, March 2018, 978 0 674 97952 9
James Cahill
At Tate Britain: Frank Bowling
Jeremy Harding
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music by Michael Lang. Reel Art Press, 289 pp., £44.95, July 2019, 978 1 909526 62 4
David Runciman
No Spin by Shane Warne. Ebury, 411 pp., £9.99, June 2019, 978 1 78503 785 6
Katherine Rundell
Consider the Swift
Bee Wilson
The London Restaurant: 1840-1914 by Brenda Assael. Oxford, 239 pp., £60, July 2018, 978 0 19 881760 4
Adam Mars-Jones
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley. Cape, 281 pp., £16.99, February 2019, 978 1 78733 111 2
Anne Wagner
In Cardiff: David Nash
Yonatan Mendel
Diary: A Palestinian Day Out
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