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Vol. 46 No. 5 · 7 March 2024
Nicholas Spice
‘The Pole’ and Other Stories by J.M. Coetzee. Harvill Secker, 255 pp., £20, October 2023, 978 1 78730 405 5
Letters
Jane M. Card, Stephen Sedley, Ian Birchall, Brian Vickers, Kieran Setiya, Daniel Jewesbury, John Newman, Paul Keegan, Rodney Brooke, Ian Gowans
Geoff Mann
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson. Farrar, Straus, 473 pp., £25, September 2023, 978 0 374 10385 9 Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture and Control in Cold War America by Andrew C. McKevitt. North Carolina, 319 pp., £24.95, November 2023, 978 1 4696 7724 8
Tariq Ali
Short Cuts: Pakistan’s Electoral Chicanery
Susan Pedersen
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars by Tara Zahra. Norton, 352 pp., £14.99, March, 978 1 324 07520 2
Richard J. Evans
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 by David Blackbourn. Liveright, 774 pp., £40, July 2023, 978 1 63149 183 2
Adam Smyth
Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book by Brian Cummings. Oxford, 562 pp., £37.99, February 2022, 978 0 19 284731 7
Nicholas Penny
On the Wall
Joanna Biggs
In the Ditch by Buchi Emecheta. Penguin, 147 pp., £9.99, August 2023, 978 0 241 57812 4 The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta. Penguin, 264 pp., £9.99, September 2022, 978 0 241 57813 1
Ange Mlinko
Poem: ‘The Missing Nymph at Dry Tortugas’
Clare Bucknell
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright. Cape, 288 pp., £18.99, August 2023, 978 1 78733 460 1
Chal Ravens
Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain by Ed Gillett. Picador, 464 pp., £20, August 2023, 978 1 5290 7064 4
David Thomson
On the Red Carpet
David Edgar
Tainted Democracy: Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary by Zsuzsanna Szelényi. Hurst, 438 pp., £25, November 2022, 978 1 78738 802 4
Susannah Clapp
At the Pompidou: On Posy Simmonds
Nathan Sperber
The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin. Swift Press, 360 pp., £25, July 2023, 978 1 80075 384 6
Georgie Newson
Diary: At the Recycling Centre
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