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Vol. 43 No. 3 · 4 February 2021
Steven Shapin
The Great Inoculator: The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and His Medical Revolution by Gavin Weightman. Yale, 216 pp., £16.99, August 2020, 978 0 300 24144 0
Letters
Mazen Labban, Ian Lee, Timothy Neat, Esther Chadwick, Paul Steeples, Ian Sandilands, Robert Henderson, Robin Blake, Lowell Rudorfer, Gavin Tucker
Jeremy Harding
Charlie’s War
Patrick Cockburn
After IS
William Davies
Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics by Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford. Cambridge, 391 pp., £15.99, October 2020, 978 1 108 46190 0
Erin Maglaque
Abortion in Early Modern Italy by John Christopoulos. Harvard, 360 pp., £39.95, January, 978 0 674 24809 0
Mike Jay
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer. Henry Holt, 384 pp., £11.99, November 2020, 978 1 250 76262 7
Peter Geoghegan
Short Cuts: FOI
Namara Smith
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. Viking, 256 pp., £14.99, March, 978 0 241 43337 9
Alex Harvey
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson. Vintage, 224 pp., £9.99, February 2019, 978 1 78470 817 7
Lloyd de Beer
At the National Museum of African Art: Caravans of Gold
Thomas Meaney
Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s by Simon Hall. Faber, 276 pp., £17.99, September 2020, 978 0 571 35306 4
Diane Williams
Story: ‘Harriet Mounce’
Freya Johnston
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion and Politics by Sylvana Tomaselli. Princeton, 230 pp., £25, December 2020, 978 0 691 16903 3
Nicholas Spice
Hans Keller 1919-85: A Musician in Dialogue with His Times by Alison Garnham and Susi Woodhouse. Routledge, 421 pp., £34.99, December 2018, 978 1 138 39104 8
David Runciman
A Funny Feeling
Robert Crawford
Poem: ‘Old World’
Samuel Earle
97,196 Words: Essays by Emmanuel Carrère, translated by John Lambert. Vintage, 304 pp., £9.99, December 2020, 978 1 78470 582 4
Marina Warner
Angels & Saints by Eliot Weinberger. Norton, 159 pp., £21.99, September 2020, 978 0 8112 2986 9
Maaza Mengiste
Diary: Ethiopia’s Long War
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