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Vol. 46 No. 4 · 22 February 2024
Marina Warner
Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History by Philip C. Almond. Cambridge, 347 pp., £30, December 2022, 978 1 009 22169 6 Mary Magdalene: A Visual History by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. T&T Clark, 154 pp., £17.99, February 2023, 978 0 567 70574 7
Letters
Jonathan Sawday, Robin Lane Fox, Frank Berman, Jane Reid, Neil Blackshaw, Bob Frishman, Michael Tondre, Anna Reid, Allen Torrey, Clarissa Wyatt
Terry Eagleton
Hegel’s World Revolutions by Richard Bourke. Princeton, 321 pp., £25, October 2023, 978 0 691 25018 2
James Meek
Two Armies in One
Aziz Huq
Short Cuts: Trump’s Indictments
Mark Ford
Poem: ‘Lunar Solo’
Barbara Everett
Henry and Hamlet
Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Jesuits: A History by Markus Friedrich, translated by John Noël Dillon. Princeton, 854 pp., £22, October 2023, 978 0 691 22620 0
Laleh Khalili
Red Sea Attacks
James Vincent
Miracles and Machines: A 16th-Century Automaton and Its Legend by Elizabeth King and W. David Todd. Getty, 245 pp., £39.99, August 2023, 978 1 60606 839 7
Ben Walker
On VAR
Ferdinand Mount
More Than a Game: A History of How Sport Made Britain by David Horspool. John Murray, 336 pp., £25, November 2023, 978 1 5293 6327 2
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr Alex Comfort, Author of ‘The Joy of Sex’ by Eric Laursen. AK Press, 740 pp., £27, January, 978 1 84935 496 7
Francis Gooding
At the Imperial War Museum
Lorraine Daston
The Man Who Organised Nature: The Life of Linnaeus by Gunnar Broberg, translated by Anna Paterson. Princeton, 484 pp., £35, July 2023, 978 0 691 21342 2
Colin Kidd
The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom edited by Peter Cane and Harshan Kumarasingham. Cambridge, 1178 pp., £160, August 2023, 978 1 108 47421 4
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Zone of Interest’
Lola Seaton
The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore. Granta, 336 pp., £14.99, September 2023, 978 1 78378 919 1
Keiron Pim
Diary: In Mostyska
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