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Vol. 45 No. 18 · 21 September 2023
John Lanchester
Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China by Arunabh Ghosh. Princeton, 340 pp., £25, January 2022, 978 0 691 19971 9 Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever by Rory Smith. Mudlark, 304 pp., £9.99, March, 978 0 00 848407 1 Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers by Georgina Sturge. Bridge Street, 274 pp., £20, November 2022, 978 0 349 12861 0 Follow the Money: How Much Does Britain Cost? by Paul Johnson. Abacus, 320 pp., £25, February, 978 1 4087 1401 0
Letters
Padraig Rooney, Sophie Smith, Simon Clark & Will Louch, Peter Cave, Toby Williamson, Roger Morsley-Smith, Allan Antliff, Jon Prawer
Michael Ledger-Lomas
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism by Philip J. Stern. Harvard, 408 pp., £30.95, May, 978 0 674 98812 5
William Davies
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber by Wendy Brown. Harvard, 132 pp., £19.95, April, 978 0 674 27938 4
Francis Gooding
Short Cuts: Orca Life
David Bromwich
James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire by Tim Clayton. Yale, 400 pp., £50, November 2022, 978 1 913107 32 1 Uproar! Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London by Alice Loxton. Icon, 397 pp., £25, March, 978 1 78578 954 0 Media Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches, Scraps and Spectres by Joseph Monteyne. Toronto, 301 pp., £49.99, June 2022, 978 1 4875 2774 7
Dinah Birch
Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters by Emily Cockayne. Oxford, 299 pp., £20, September, 978 0 19 879505 6
Ferdinand Mount
Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement 1258-72 by David Carpenter. Yale, 711 pp., £30, May, 978 0 300 24805 0 Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule 1207-58 by David Carpenter. Yale, 763 pp., £30, October 2021, 978 0 300 25919 3
Alice Spawls
At Pallant House: Gwen John
Christopher Clark
Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil. Allen Lane, 485 pp., £30, June, 978 0 241 41919 9
Clair Wills
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas. Virago, 564 pp., £12.99, June, 978 0 349 01286 5
Michael Wood
At the Movies: Christian Petzold’s ‘Afire’
Robert Crawford
Edwin and Willa Muir: A Literary Marriage by Margery Palmer McCulloch. Oxford, 350 pp., £100, March, 978 0 19 285804 7 The Usurpers by Willa Muir, edited by Anthony Hirst and Jim Potts. Colenso, 290 pp., £15, March, 978 1 912788 27 9
Clare Bucknell
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan. Cape, 218 pp., £16.99, July, 978 1 78733 250 8
Daniel Trilling
Diary: Citizenship Restored
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