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Vol. 43 No. 7 · 1 April 2021
Neal Ascherson
The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley. Profile, 502 pp., £25, March, 978 1 84668 497 5
Letters
Benjamin Letzler, Andy Beckett, Simone Maghenzani, Steven Rose, Liam Shaw, Leslie Sklair, Michael Kuczynski, Edmund Fawcett, Anil Gomes, Tony Abbott
T.J. Clark
Aboutness
Owen Bennett-Jones
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston. Viking, 322 pp., £18.99, February, 978 0 241 38867 9
Stefan Collini
The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War by Peter Mandler. Oxford, 361 pp., £25, September 2020, 978 0 19 884014 5 The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits. Allen Lane, 464 pp., £10.99, August 2020, 978 0 14 198474 2
Katherine Harloe
A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 by Edith Hall and Henry Stead. Routledge, 670 pp., £29.99, March 2020, 978 0 367 43236 2
Jenny Turner
Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life by Selina Hastings. Chatto, 432 pp., £35, November 2020, 978 1 78474 113 6
Alice Spawls
Short Cuts: Beyond Images
Michael Wood
Émigrés: French Words that Turned English by Richard Scholar. Princeton, 253 pp., £25, September 2020, 978 0 691 19032 7
Katherine Rundell
Consider the Stork
Donald MacKenzie
Cookies, Pixels and Fingerprints
Matthew Bevis
On Charles Wright
Gill Partington
Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics and Poetics of UbuWeb by Kenneth Goldsmith. Columbia, 328 pp., £20, July 2020, 978 0 231 18695 7
Diane Williams
Story: ‘Gladly!’
Joe Dunthorne
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist, translated by Michael Hofmann. New Directions, 112 pp., £11.99, April 2020, 978 0 8112 2834 3
Harry Strawson
Rave by Rainald Goetz, translated by Adrian Nathan West. Fitzcarraldo, 263 pp., £12.99, July 2020, 978 1 913097 19 6
Dani Garavelli
Diary: Salmond v. Sturgeon
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