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Vol. 42 No. 15 · 30 July 2020
William Davies
Who am I prepared to kill?
Letters
Otto Saumarez Smith, Richard J. Evans, Mark Bostridge, Michael Bentley, Yih Lerh Huang, Paul Brown, Steve Smith, Charles Mahoney, Peter Hayes, Michael Holland, Olav Martin Kvern, Chris Sansom
Alan Bennett
The Shrine
Adam Tooze
Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System by Paul Blustein. McGill-Queen’s, 356 pp., £27.99, September 2019, 978 1 928096 85 6 Superpower Showdown: How the Battle between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War by Bob Davis and Lingling Wei. Harper, 480 pp., £25, June 2020, 978 0 06 295305 6 Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis. Yale, 288 pp., £20, June 2020, 978 0 300 24417 5 The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Metropolitan Elite by Michael Lind. Atlantic, 224 pp., £14.99, February 2020, 978 1 78649 955 4
Hazel V. Carby
Peine forte et dure
Frances Stonor Saunders
The Suitcase
Patrick Cockburn
Short Cuts: Thanington Without
Randall Kennedy
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner. Norton, 288 pp., £18.99, October 2019, 978 0 393 65257 4
Linda Colley
Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World by Andrew Phillips and J.C. Sharman. Princeton, 253 pp., £25, June 2020, 978 0 691 20351 5
Anne Wagner
Eva Hesse
Neal Ascherson
A Schoolmaster’s War: Harry Rée, British Agent in the French Resistance edited by Jonathan Rée. Yale, 204 pp., £14.99, March 2020, 978 0 300 24566 0
N.A.M. Rodger
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail 1740-1840 by Stephen Taylor. Yale, 490 pp., £20, April, 978 0 300 24571 4
Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘Near Gleann nam Fiadh’
Clare Bucknell
You People by Nikita Lalwani. Viking, 231 pp., £12.99, April, 978 0 241 40953 4
Michael Wood
Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might Have Been by Christopher Prendergast. Bloomsbury, 257 pp., £19.99, February 2019, 978 1 350 09009 5 Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction by Catherine Gallagher. Chicago, 359 pp., £26.50, January 2018, 978 0 226 51241 9
Richard Shone
Forster in Cambridge
James Lomax
Diary: In Ashgabat
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