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Vol. 41 No. 17 · 12 September 2019
Stephen Sedley
Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics by Jonathan Sumption. Profile, 128 pp., £9.99, August 2019, 978 1 78816 372 9
Letters
Leni Gillman, Clare Carlisle, Iain Mackintosh, Samar Shams, Colin Cohen, Richard Clogg, Robert Walker, Robert Knight, Danny Dorling, Don Lock, Edward Mayer, Peter Lucey
Julian Barnes
Berthe Morisot Musée d’Orsay (until 22 September)
Jeremy Waldron
Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law by Bruce Ackerman. Harvard, 457 pp., £25.95, May 2019, 978 0 674 97068 7
Richard J. Evans
Michael Gove: A Man in a Hurry by Owen Bennett. Biteback, 422 pp., £20, July 2019, 978 1 78590 440 0
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’
Seamus Perry
The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin by Geoffrey Hill. Oxford, 148 pp., £20, April 2019, 978 0 19 882952 2
Benjamin Kunkel
Short Cuts: The Amazon Burning
Josephine Quinn
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth by Jodi Magness. Princeton, 280 pp., £24, May 2019, 978 0 691 16710 7
Helen McCarthy
Mother: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott. Viking, 336 pp., £14.99, March 2019, 978 0 241 19860 5
Emily Berry
Poem: ‘from ‘Unexhausted Time’’
Lynne Vallone
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang. Liveright, 416 pp., £11.99, May 2019, 978 1 63149 545 8
Nicola Jennings
At the National Gallery: Bartolomé Bermejo
Michael Wood
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie. Cape, 397 pp., £20, August 2019, 978 1 78733 191 4
Colin Kidd
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the 18th Century by James Buchan. MacLehose, 513 pp., £14.99, August 2019, 978 1 84866 608 5
John Burnside
Three Poems
Andrew McGettigan
Fiscal Illusions
Alice Spawls
At the Ponds
Nicole Flattery
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry. Canongate, 224 pp., £14.99, June 2019, 978 1 78211 617 2
Robert Fothergill
Diary: Among the Leavisites
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