Vol. 46 No. 20 · 24 October 2024

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Vol. 46 No. 20 · 24 October 2024

Letters

Bridget Fowler, T.J. Clark, Ted Smethurst, Tony Spawforth, Bill Lancaster, David Zeitlyn, Michael Allen, Thom Cross

Sheila Fitzpatrick

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans. Princeton, 797 pp., £35, August, 978 0 691 11703 4

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Megalopolis’

Neal Ascherson

Believe Nothing until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism by Patrick Cockburn. Verso, 293 pp., £25, October, 978 1 80429 075 0

Adam Shatz

After Nasrallah

Deborah Friedell

Short Cuts: Reading J.D. Vance

Jeremy Harding

How to Write about Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina. Penguin, 352 pp., £10.99, April, 978 0 241 25253 6

Tom Stammers

Tangled Paths: A Life of Aby Warburg by Hans C. Hönes. Reaktion, 288 pp., £25, March, 978 1 78914 851 0

Michael Hofmann

At the Louisiana: On Chaïm Soutine

Toril Moi

‘The Unforgivable’ and Other Writings by Cristina Campo, translated by Alex Andriesse. NYRB, 269 pp., £16.99, February, 978 1 68137 802 2

Rosemary Hill

The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art by Robyne Calvert. Yale, 208 pp., £35, April, 978 0 300 23985 0

Helen Thaventhiran

Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James by William James, edited by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle. Princeton, 387 pp., £25, January 2023, 978 0 691 24015 2
William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician by Emma K. Sutton. Chicago, 251 pp., £24, December 2023, 978 0 226 82898 5

John Burnside

Two Poems

Bee Wilson

Madame Restell: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright. Hachette, 352 pp., £17.99, May, 978 0 306 82681 8

Elizabeth Goldring

At Kenwood House: Curtain Pictures

Colin Kidd

How to Steal a Presidential Election by Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman. Yale, 162 pp., £25, April, 978 0 300 27079 2

Tom Johnson

By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England by Jessica Marie Otis. Oxford, 264 pp., £18.99, April, 978 0 19 760878 4

Rosamond McKitterick

House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France by Justine Firnhaber-Baker. Allen Lane, 408 pp., £30, March, 978 0 241 55277 3

Adam Mars-Jones

I Will Crash by Rebecca Watson. Faber, 294 pp., £14.99, July, 978 0 571 35674 4

Ange Mlinko

Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good by Eley Williams. Fourth Estate, 199 pp., £16.99, July, 978 0 00 861892 6

Francis FitzGibbon

Diary: Why I Resigned

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