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Vol. 44 No. 10 · 26 May 2022

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Vol. 44 No. 10 · 26 May 2022

James Meek

How Civil Wars Start – And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter

Letters

Hugh Pennington, Anna Swan, Thomas Ciantra, Nicholas Blanton, David Howell, Oren Margolis, Peter Thonemann, Michael Gray, Nick Rampley, Bernard Richards, Tom Wells

Clare Jackson

Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts by Nadine Akkerman

James Butler

Short Cuts: Limping to Success

Hazel V. Carby

The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Exterminate All the Brutes directed by Raoul Peck

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

Rosa Lyster

Empire of Diamonds: Victorian Gems in Imperial Settings by Adrienne Munich
Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control over the World’s Diamonds by Tijl Vanneste

Jan-Werner Müller

Germany Inc.

A.E. Stallings

Poem: ‘The Sieve’

Ferdinand Mount

Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East by Jonathan Parry

James Romm

Olympia: A Cultural History by Judith M. Barringer

Ange Mlinko

Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St Vincent Millay edited by Daniel Mark Epstein

Tim Parks

Kapo by Aleksandar Tišma, translated by Richard Williams

Hal Foster

At Tate Modern: ‘Surrealism beyond Borders’

Freya Johnston

The Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood

Alex Harvey

The N’Gustro Affair by Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
No Room at the Morgue by Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated by Alyson Waters

Anne Enright

On the Sands

Francis Gooding

Wild Thought: A New Translation of ‘La Pensée sauvage’ by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by Jeffrey Mehlman and John Leavitt

Rosemary Hill

Diary: At Mars Avenue

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