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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. Viking, 289 pp., £18.99, January 2022, 978 0 241 42975 4
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. Oxford, 581 pp., £20, December 2021, 978 0 19 966830 4
James Butler
Short Cuts: Limping to Success
Hazel V. Carby
The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones. W.H. Allen, 624 pp., £25, November 2021, 978 0 7535 5953 6 Exterminate All the Brutes directed by Raoul Peck. HBO, April 2021
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
Rosa Lyster
Empire of Diamonds: Victorian Gems in Imperial Settings by Adrienne Munich. Virginia, 296 pp., £27.50, May 2020, 978 0 8139 4400 5 Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control over the World’s Diamonds by Tijl Vanneste. Reaktion, 432 pp., £25, October 2021, 978 1 78914 435 2
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. Princeton, 453 pp., £35, April, 978 0 691 18189 9
James Romm
Olympia: A Cultural History by Judith M. Barringer. Princeton, 281 pp., £28, January, 978 0 691 21047 6
Ange Mlinko
Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St Vincent Millay edited by Daniel Mark Epstein. Yale, 390 pp., £28, March, 978 0 300 24568 4
Tim Parks
Kapo by Aleksandar Tišma, translated by Richard Williams. NYRB, 306 pp., £14.99, August 2021, 978 1 68137 439 0
Hal Foster
At Tate Modern: ‘Surrealism beyond Borders’
Freya Johnston
The Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood. Europa, 200 pp., £12.99, October 2021, 978 1 78770 345 2
Alex Harvey
The N’Gustro Affair by Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. NYRB, 180 pp., £12, September 2021, 978 1 68137 512 0 No Room at the Morgue by Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated by Alyson Waters. NYRB, 188 pp., £12, August 2020, 978 1 68137 418 5
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. Chicago, 357 pp., £16, January 2021, 978 0 226 41308 2
Rosemary Hill
Diary: At Mars Avenue
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