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Vol. 41 No. 18 · 26 September 2019
Letters
Denis MacShane, Edward Luttwak, Fiona Gray, David Bromwich, Bob Jope, Derek Robinson, Rollo Whately, Rupert Read, Janet Wood, James Tanner
Ferdinand Mount
Enoch Powell: Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain by Paul Corthorn. Oxford, 233 pp., £20, August 2019, 978 0 19 874714 7
William Davies
How to Be Prime Minister
Eliot Weinberger
One Summer in America
Bridget Alsdorf
At the Royal Academy: Félix Vallotton
Blair Worden
Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War by David Como. Oxford, 457 pp., £85, July 2018, 978 0 19 954191 1 The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution by Michael Braddick. Oxford, 391 pp., £25, August 2018, 978 0 19 880323 2
Christopher Clark
Short Cuts: What would Bismarck do?
Christian Lorentzen
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden. Macmillan, 339 pp., £20, September 2019, 978 1 5290 3565 0
Frederick Wilmot-Smith
Justice eBay Style
Stephanie Bishop
Poem: ‘On the Psychological Effect of Living with Houseplants’
Sarah Perry
Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire by Jessica Howell. Cambridge, 238 pp., £75, October 2018, 978 1 108 48468 8
Ange Mlinko
Poem: ‘Watteau’
Anne Diebel
The Wych Elm by Tana French. Penguin, 528 pp., £6.99, September 2019, 978 0 241 37953 0
August Kleinzahler
Questioning Minds: Vols I-II: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner edited by Edward Burns. Counterpoint, 1817 pp., $95, October 2018, 978 1 61902 181 5
Richard Hollis
In Weimar
Ben Mauk
Diary: Prisons in the Mountains
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