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Vol. 45 No. 7 · 30 March 2023
Thomas Laqueur
A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in US History by Francesca Morgan. North Carolina, 301 pp., £27.95, October 2021, 978 1 4696 6478 1
Letters
Robert Harper, Barbara Everett, Stephen Low, Chris Sansom, Stuart Maconie, Hilary Kitchin, Richard Sieburth, Graham Anderson, Michael Holzman, Rev. David A. Robertson, Peter Rowland, Tom Cheesman, Peter Malpass, Caroline Walker, William Farrell
Francis Gooding
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber. Allen Lane, 208 pp., £18.99, January, 978 0 241 61140 1
Michael Wood
At the Movies: Kore-eda Hirokazu’s ‘Broker’
Laleh Khalili
Cabin Fever: Trapped On Board a Cruise Ship When the Pandemic Hit by Michael Smith and Jonathan Franklin. Endeavour, 259 pp., £20, July 2022, 978 1 913068 73 8 Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel. Atlantic, 268 pp., £10.99, May 2023, 978 1 83895 255 6
Daniel Trilling
Broken Yard: The Fall of the Metropolitan Police by Tom Harper. Biteback, 446 pp., £20, October 2022, 978 1 78590 768 5 Tango Juliet Foxtrot: How Did It All Go Wrong for British Policing? by Iain Donnelly. Biteback, 341 pp., £20, November 2021, 978 1 78590 716 6
Alice Spawls
Short Cuts: Elective Surgery
Malcolm Gaskill
The Siege of Loyalty House: A Civil War Story by Jessie Childs. Vintage, 318 pp., £12.99, May, 978 1 78470 209 0
John Burnside
Poem: ‘Wulf-monath’
David Runciman
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf. Allen Lane, 496 pp., £30, February, 978 0 241 30341 2
Nicola Jennings
At the Royal Academy: Spain and the Hispanic World
Steven Shapin
The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science edited by Bojana Mladenović. Chicago, 302 pp., £20, November 2022, 978 0 226 82274 7
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘In Reality’
Hal Foster
An Oblique Autobiography by Yve-Alain Bois, edited by Jordan Kantor. No Place, 375 pp., £15.99, December 2022, 978 1 949484 08 3
Miriam Dobson
Bone Music: Soviet X-Ray Audio by Stephen Coates. Strange Attractor, 156 pp., £32, January, 978 1 913689 47 6
Joe Dunthorne
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles. Weidenfeld, 249 pp., £8.99, March 2022, 978 1 4746 2040 6
Ben Walker
At the Design Museum: Weird Sensation Feels Good
Sheila S. Coronel
Diary: Rewriting the Marcos Years
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