Vol. 46 No. 8 · 25 April 2024

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Vol. 46 No. 8 · 25 April 2024

Letters

Robert Lethbridge, Peter Gillman, Elizabeth Benedict, Ira Katznelson, Stephen Adamson, Mark Sinker, Adam Lechmere, Gerard Hastings, David Flusfeder, Allen Schill

Terry Eagleton

Where does culture come from?

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘No One Today’

Sophie Smith

How to Think like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy edited by Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro

Alexandra Walsham

Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment: The English and Scottish Experience by Michael Hunter

Tom Crewe

James and John: A True Story of Prejudice and Murder by Chris Bryant

Emily LaBarge

At the Perimeter: On Shuvinai Ashoona

Martin Loughlin

Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn and Forge a Democracy for All by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

Alexander Clapp

‘Rip their skin off’

Chris Lintott

Short Cuts: Total Eclipse

Greg Afinogenov

The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814-1914 by Alexander Morrison
Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia by Maziar Behrooz

Susannah Clapp

On Pockets

Tim Parks

My Friends by Hisham Matar

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘The Delinquents’

John Kerrigan

The Letters of Seamus Heaney edited by Christopher Reid

Charles Hope

Painting in 15th-Century Italy: This Splendid and Noble Art by Diane Cole Ahl

Freya Johnston

The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought by Philip Smallwood

Christopher Siwicki

At the Capitoline Museums: ‘Fidia’

Nicole Flattery

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt

Eyal Weizman

Diary: Three Genocides

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