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Vol. 45 No. 22 · 16 November 2023
Letters
Charlotte Brewer; Stephen Turton, Chris Carr, Andrew Day, C.D.C. Armstrong, Philip Woods, Nancy Blake, Ben Givan, Sam Warren Miell, Nigel Wenban-Smith, Nick Wray
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
The Poison Line: A True Story of Death, Deception and Infected Blood by Cara McGoogan. Viking, 396 pp., £20, September 2023, 978 0 241 62750 1 Death in the Blood: The Inside Story of the NHS Infected Blood Scandal by Caroline Wheeler. Headline, 390 pp., £22, September 2023, 978 1 0354 0524 4
Andrew Cockburn
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War Two by Evan Thomas. Elliot & Thompson, 296 pp., £20, June, 978 1 78396 729 2
Deborah Friedell
Short Cuts: The Freedom Caucus
Leila Farsakh
‘The Refugee Problem’
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘The Golden Shrug’
Oliver Cussen
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville by Olivier Zunz. Princeton, 443 pp., £22, November, 978 0 691 25414 2 Travels with Tocqueville beyond America by Jeremy Jennings. Harvard, 544 pp., £34.95, March, 978 0 674 27560 7
James Butler
Up in Arms
Jan-Werner Müller
The New Politics of Poland: A Case of Post-Traumatic Sovereignty by Jarosław Kuisz. Manchester, 344 pp., £20, November, 978 1 5261 5587 0
Jamie Martin
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest by Edward Chancellor. Penguin, 398 pp., £12.99, September, 978 1 80206 015 7
Hugo Williams
Poem: ‘A Brief Exchange’
Daniel Trilling
Chapters of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir by Alexander Baron. Vallentine Mitchell, 363 pp., £16.96, September 2022, 978 1 80371 029 7
Rosa Lyster
Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo. Bloomsbury, 378 pp., £20, August 2023, 978 1 5266 6857 8
Jo Applin
At Cosmic House: On Madelon Vriesendorp
Bee Wilson
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen Brower. HarperCollins, 495 pp., £25, December 2022, 978 0 00 843582 0
Freya Johnston
Decadent Women: ‘Yellow Book’ Lives by Jad Adams. Reaktion, 388 pp., £20, October, 978 1 78914 789 6
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Mark Ford
Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes edited by Christopher C. De Santis. Oxford, 339 pp., £32, August 2022, 978 0 19 285504 6
John Mullan
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Faber, 548 pp., £9.99, May, 978 0 571 37648 3
Fraser MacDonald
Diary: Balmorality
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