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Vol. 46 No. 21 · 7 November 2024
Letters
Rosanna Ellul, Peter J. Andrews, Owain Lawson, Nick Young, David Harris, Celeste Marcus, Dany Nobus, Patrick Worsnip, Nikolay Sturm, Sandra Megaffin, Dave Morris, Nick Totton, Roger Britton
Adam Tooze
Great Power Politics
Jenny Turner
Love’s Work by Gillian Rose. Penguin, 112 pp., £9.99, March, 978 0 241 94549 0 Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory by Gillian Rose, edited by Robert Lucas Scott and James Gordon Finlayson. Verso, 176 pp., £16.99, September, 978 1 80429 011 8
Josephine Quinn
At the British Museum: ‘Silk Roads’
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett. Allen Lane, 540 pp., £30, May, 978 0 241 39422 9 A Woman like Me by Diane Abbott. Viking, 311 pp., £25, September, 978 0 241 53641 4 Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin. William Collins, 448 pp., £16.99, October, 978 0 00 873964 5
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale. Bloomsbury, 296 pp., £22, October, 978 1 5266 6048 0
Blake Morrison
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood. Sceptre, 297 pp., £16.99, March, 978 1 3997 2434 0
Tom Shippey
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich. Princeton, 622 pp., £20, August, 978 0 691 21916 5
Laleh Khalili
The Contest for the Indian Ocean and the Making of a New World Order by Darshana M. Baruah. Yale, 206 pp., £20, August, 978 0 300 27091 4
Peter Geoghegan
Short Cuts: BP in Azerbaijan
Malcolm Gaskill
A History of Fireworks: From Their Origins to the Present Day by John Withington. Reaktion, 331 pp., £25, August, 978 1 78914 935 7
Julian Barnes
A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front by Adam D. Zientek. McGill-Queen’s, 272 pp., £34, February, 978 0 2280 1993 0
Nick Richardson
The Grimoire Encyclopedia: Volume 1 by David Rankine. Hadean Press, 739 pp., £39.99, April 2023, 978 1 914166 36 5 The Grimoire Encyclopedia: Volume 2 by David Rankine. Hadean Press, 660 pp., £39.99, April 2023, 978 1 914166 37 2 Art of the Grimoire by Owen Davies. Yale, 256 pp., £25, October 2023, 978 0 300 27201 7
Lorraine Daston
Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology by Gregory Radick. Chicago, 630 pp., £30, August 2023, 978 0 226 82272 3
David Morley
From ‘Seven Women Scientists’
Nabil Salih
Diary: Return to Baghdad
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