Vol. 43 No. 5 · 4 March 2021

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Vol. 43 No. 5 · 4 March 2021

Susan Pedersen

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes

Letters

Luuk van Middelaar, Perry Anderson, Ifdal Elsaket, Matt Kelly, Caroline Walker, Ingólfur Gíslason, David Hall, Russell Farris

Rosemary Hill

London’s West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914 by Rohan McWilliam
Survey of London: Volume 53, Oxford Street edited by Andrew Saint

Frances Webber

Short Cuts: Detaining Refugees

Colin Kidd

The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Thought in Modern Scotland by Ben Jackson
Standing up for Scotland: Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1884-2014 by David Torrance

Michael Symmons Roberts

Poem: ‘Custody of the Eyes’

Colm Tóibín

Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

Terry Castle

Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford

Rupert Beale

Eeek!

Stephen Sedley

Fake Law: The Truth about Justice in an Age of Lies by the Secret Barrister

Andrew O’Hagan

On the A1

Tom Stevenson

War in Space by Bleddyn Bowen
Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics and the Ends of Humanity by Daniel Deudney

Michael Hofmann

Poem: ‘H.H., 95’

Adam Mars-Jones

Hinton by Mark Blacklock

Clare Bucknell

At the National Gallery: Artemisia

Francis Gooding

The Reinvention of Humanity: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Remade Race, Sex and Gender by Charles King

Rebecca Armstrong

The Aeneid translated by Shadi Bartsch

Thomas Jones

On Bill Gates

Michael Wood

Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe

Tessa Hadley

‘Blue in Chicago’ and Other Stories by Bette Howland

John Foot

On the Barone

Elias Muhanna

The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History by Cemil Aydin

Susan McKay

Diary: Pro-­Union Non­-Unionists

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