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Vol. 42 No. 2 · 23 January 2020
Adam Shatz
Too Important to Kill
Letters
Robert Simon, Nicholas Penny, James Haslam, Charles Moore, Richard Bowring, Thomas Laqueur, Martin Davison, Albion Urdank, Roland Mayer, Tom Groenfeldt, Scott Jordan Harris, Chris Bratcher
Patrick Cockburn
Blundering into War
Thomas Penn
Emperor: A New Life of Charles V by Geoffrey Parker. Yale, 760 pp., £25, May 2019, 978 0 300 19652 8
Catherine Hall
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment by Amelia Gentleman. Guardian Faber, 336 pp., £18.99, September 2019, 978 1 78335 184 8 Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant. Cape, 320 pp., £18.99, October 2019, 978 1 78733 105 1 Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Become Scapegoats by Maya Goodfellow. Verso, 272 pp., £12.99, November 2019, 978 1 78873 336 6
Adam Swift
Social Mobility and Its Enemies by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin. Pelican, 272 pp., £8.99, September 2018, 978 0 241 31702 0 Social Mobility and Education in Britain by Erzsébet Bukodi and John Goldthorpe. Cambridge, 249 pp., £19.99, December 2018, 978 1 108 46821 3 The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison. Policy, 224 pp., £9.99, January, 978 1 4473 3610 5
Tariq Ali
Short Cuts: So much for England
Nelly Lahoud
What the jihadis left behind
Francesca Wade
A Working Woman: The Remarkable Life of Ray Strachey by Jennifer Holmes. Troubador, 392 pp., £20, February 2019, 978 1 78901 654 3
Malcolm Gaskill
Tombland by C.J. Sansom. Pan Macmillan, 866 pp., £8.99, September 2019, 978 1 4472 8451 2
James Davidson
At the British Museum: ‘Troy: Myth and Reality’
Jamie McKendrick
Poem: ‘The Lion Tree’
Jenny Turner
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism against Family by Sophie Lewis. Verso, 216 pp., £14.99, May 2019, 978 1 78663 729 1 Making Kin Not Population edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway. Prickly Paradigm, 120 pp., £10, July 2018, 978 0 9966355 6 1
Nicholas Penny
Boys in Motion
Lauren Oyler
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino. Fourth Estate, 303 pp., £14.99, August 2019, 978 0 00 829492 2
Long Ling
Diary: What really happened in Yancheng?
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