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Vol. 46 No. 6 · 21 March 2024
Letters
Simon Skinner, Bunny Hambleton-Relf, Barbara Everett, Penny McCarthy, Peter Bisschop, Robert Johnstone, Martin Kitchen, Otto Saumarez-Smith, Vernon Shetley, Robert Poole
Pankaj Mishra
The Shoah after Gaza
Michael Longley
Poem: ‘Boreen’
Tom Johnson
Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England by Katherine Storm Hindley. Chicago, 299 pp., £36, August 2023, 978 0 226 82533 5
Rosemary Hill
Architecture in Britain and Ireland: 1530-1830 by Steven Brindle. Paul Mellon, 582 pp., £60, November 2023, 978 1 913107 40 6
John Burnside
Two Poems
Paul Taylor
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar. Bodley Head, 332 pp., £25, September 2023, 978 1 84792 948 8 The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li. Flatiron, 322 pp., £25.99, December 2023, 978 1 250 89793 0
James Butler
Short Cuts: Jeremy Hunt’s Mendacity
Jim Wilson
Shameful
Claire Hall
Galen: Writings on Health translated by P.N. Singer. Cambridge, 510 pp., £120, March 2023, 978 1 009 15951 7
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘American Fiction’
Lucie Elven
Hackenfeller’s Ape by Brigid Brophy. Faber, 133 pp., £9.99, October 2023, 978 0 571 38129 6
Jo Applin
At the Serpentine: On Barbara Kruger
Ange Mlinko
Collected Works by Jo Ann Beard. Serpent’s Tail, 439 pp., £17.99, August 2023, 978 1 80081 788 3 Cheri by Jo Ann Beard. Serpent’s Tail, 79 pp., £10, August 2023, 978 1 80081 785 2
Richard Beck
Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI and the Birth of America’s Modern Militias by Kevin Cook. Holt, 272 pp., £18.99, January, 978 1 250 84051 6 Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians and a Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn. Simon & Schuster, 383 pp., £20, February 2023, 978 1 9821 8610 4
Josie Mitchell
Family Meal by Bryan Washington. Atlantic, 306 pp., £17.99, October 2023, 978 1 83895 444 4
Andrew Cockburn
The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers by Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. Yale, 549 pp., £35, May 2023, 978 0 300 23409 1
William Logan
On Anthony Hecht
Stephen W. Smith
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg. William Collins, 550 pp., £25, May 2023, 978 0 00 835378 0
Malcolm Gaskill
Diary: The Bussolengo Letters
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