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Vol. 46 No. 7 · 4 April 2024
Mary Wellesley
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words by Jenni Nuttall. Virago, 292 pp., £10.99, May, 978 0 349 01531 6
Letters
Moshé Machover, James McAuley, Avital Balwit, Brian Vickers, Pat Butcher, Joe Oldaker, Arthur M. Shapiro, Penny Collier, John Potts
Mike Jay
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep by Kenneth Miller. Oneworld, 330 pp., £18.99, October 2023, 978 0 86154 516 2
T.J. Clark
Poem: ‘Clapham in March’
Michael Ledger-Lomas
Andrew Lang: Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect by John Sloan. Oxford, 285 pp., £78, June 2023, 978 0 19 286687 5 Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum by Owen Davies. Oxford, 350 pp., £25, September 2023, 978 0 19 887300 6
Michael Hofmann
The Islander: A Biography of Halldór Laxness by Halldór Guðmundsson, translated by Philip Roughton. MacLehose, 486 pp., £25, September 2023, 978 1 5294 3373 9
Brandon Taylor
Is it even good?
Akshi Singh
Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism by Mircea Raianu. Harvard, 291 pp., £35.95, July 2021, 978 0 674 98451 6
William Davies
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet by Brett Christophers. Verso, 398 pp., £22, February, 978 1 80429 230 3
Frances Webber
Short Cuts: No Safe Routes
Hazel V. Carby
Remembering the Future
Stephen Holmes
Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times by Samuel Moyn. Yale, 229 pp., £20, October 2023, 978 0 300 26621 4
Philip Knox
At the Bodleian: ‘Chaucer Here and Now’
Emily Witt
Blackouts by Justin Torres. Granta, 305 pp., £14.99, November 2023, 978 1 84708 397 5
Robert Crawford
Poem: ‘After the British Library Cyberattack’
Pooja Bhatia
Diary: Leaving Haiti
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