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Vol. 45 No. 19 · 5 October 2023
Lorna Finlayson
Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer. Penguin, 368 pp., £20, June, 978 1 84792 776 7 Justice for Animals by Martha Nussbaum. Simon & Schuster, 372 pp., £16, January, 978 1 9821 0250 0
Letters
Peter Denman, Anthony King, Ian Britain, Robin Blake, Simon Rice, Colin Carritt, John Glenday, John Mullen, Graham A. Loud, Bill Roberts, David L. Book, Celina Fox
Colin Burrow
Orwell: The New Life by D.J. Taylor. Constable, 597 pp., £30, May, 978 1 4721 3296 3 George Orwell’s Perverse Humanity: Socialism and Free Speech by Glenn Burgess. Bloomsbury, 270 pp., £21.99, May, 978 1 5013 9466 9 Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder. Viking, 464 pp., £20, August, 978 0 241 48272 8
Jenny Turner
Short Cuts: Naomi Klein
Gavin Francis
Concussed: Sport’s Uncomfortable Truth by Sam Peters. Allen & Unwin, 448 pp., £20, August, 978 1 83895 577 9
James Vincent
Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator by Keith Houston. Norton, 374 pp., £25, October, 978 0 393 88214 8
Claire-Louise Bennett
Story: ‘‘Stay’’
Rosemary Hill
Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions by John Brewer. Yale, 513 pp., £30, October, 978 0 300 27266 6
Azadeh Moaveni
The Ostrich Defence
Stephanie Burt
Poem: ‘Horse Chestnuts’
Clare Jackson
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das. Bloomsbury, 440 pp., £30, March, 978 1 5266 1564 0
Hal Foster
Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle by Jonathan Crary. Zone, 262 pp., £25, October, 978 1 942130 85 7
Vadim Nikitin
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath by Bill Browder. Simon and Schuster, 328 pp., £9.99, February, 978 1 3985 0610 7
Emily LaBarge
At the Munch Museum: On Alice Neel
Jordan Kisner
Lament for Julia: And Other Stories by Susan Taubes. NYRB, 240 pp., £13.99, June, 978 1 68137 694 3
Eric Foner
King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig. Simon & Schuster, 669 pp., £25, May, 978 1 4711 8100 9
Leo Robson
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray. Hamish Hamilton, 656 pp., £18.99, June, 978 0 241 35395 0
Michael Dobson
Diary: Shakespeare’s Grotto
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