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Vol. 46 No. 22 · 21 November 2024
Letters
Peter Betts, Stephen Sedley, Nicky Bird, Andrew Dobson, Frances Donnelly, Anna K. Talley, Artie Prendergast-Smith, Hugh Pennington, Stephen Allen
James Meek
Nobody wants to hear this
Rachel Nolan
Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border by Ieva Jusionyte. California, 333 pp., £24, April, 978 0 520 39595 4 Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason de León. Viking, 367 pp., £28.99, March, 978 0 593 29858 9
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Cosy Crime
William Davies
A Crisis in Credibility
Vadim Nikitin
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro. Penguin, 420 pp., £10.99, May, 978 0 14 199384 3
Fara Dabhoiwala
A Man of Parts and Learning
Oliver Cussen
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos Geroulanos. Liveright, 497 pp., £22.99, May, 978 1 324 09145 5
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Poem’
Anthony Grafton
Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist by Martin McLaughlin. Princeton, 377 pp., £30, June, 978 0 691 17472 3
Clare Bucknell
At the Rijksmuseum: Panniers and Petticoats
Joanne O’Leary
The Collected Poems by Delmore Schwartz, edited by Ben Mazer. Farrar, Straus, 699 pp., £40, April, 978 0 374 60430 1
Erin Maglaque
Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves by Steven Shapin. Chicago, 568 pp., £28, November, 978 0 226 83221 0
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Anora’
Adam Thirlwell
The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani. Granta, 85 pp., £12.99, May, 978 1 80351 132 0 Spontaneous Acts by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky. Dialogue, 137 pp., £15.99, July, 978 0 349 70423 4 Suggested in the Stars by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani. Granta, 229 pp., £12.99, October, 978 1 80351 099 6
David Margolick
Diary: Fred Sparks’s Bequest
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