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Vol. 41 No. 19 · 10 October 2019
John Lanchester
The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet by James Griffiths. Zed, 386 pp., £20, March 2019, 978 1 78699 535 3 We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter. Old Street, 328 pp., £9.99, May 2019, 978 1 913083 00 7
Letters
Norman Gray, Rosie Brocklehurst, Nick Moss, David Crook, Kate Leader, Martin Daly, Elizabeth Wilson, Craig McFarlane, Peter Faulkner, Timothy Knapman
Yun Sheng
China’s Millennials
David Runciman
For the Record by David Cameron. William Collins, 732 pp., £25, September 2019, 978 0 00 823928 2
Tom Crewe
Short Cuts: The Absence of Politics
Stephen Sedley
In Court
Thomas Keymer
The Club: Johnson, Boswell and the Friends who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch. Yale, 488 pp., £20, April 2019, 978 0 300 21790 2
Patricia Lockwood
Novels, 1959-65: ‘The Poorhouse Fair’; ‘Rabbit, Run’; ‘The Centaur’; ‘Of the Farm’ by John Updike. Library of America, 850 pp., £36, November 2018, 978 1 59853 581 5
Jeremy Harding
At the Musée de la Libération: During the Occupation
Andrew O’Hagan
Hinch Yourself Happy: All the Best Cleaning Tips to Shine Your Sink and Soothe Your Soul by Mrs Hinch. Michael Joseph, 288 pp., £12.99, April 2019, 978 0 241 39975 0
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Nosferatu the Vampyre’
Colm Tóibín
The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth, 1922-68 by William Feaver. Bloomsbury, 680 pp., £35, September 2019, 978 1 4088 5093 0
Diane Williams
Story: ‘Molly Went Along Quickly’
Rosemary Hill
Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life by Christopher Forth. Reaktion, 352 pp., £25, March 2019, 978 1 78914 062 0
Jacqueline Rose
Agents of Their Own Abuse
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Whom Are You’
Lauren Oyler
Show Them a Good Time by Nicole Flattery. Bloomsbury, 238 pp., £14.99, March 2019, 978 1 5266 1190 1
T.J. Clark
A Horse’s Impossible Head
Iain Sinclair
Diary: The Peruvian Corporation of London
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