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Vol. 47 No. 1 · 23 January 2025
Patricia Lockwood
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy by Simon Critchley. Profile, 325 pp., £18.99, October 2024, 978 1 80081 693 0
Letters
Matthew Barr, Neil Foxlee, Nick Hewlett, Iain Hampsher-Monk, Paul Sutton, Victor Lloret Blackburn, Gilbert Wong, Jean-Jacques Portail, Barry Schwabsky
T.J. Clark
A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
Matt Foot
Short Cuts: Failures at the CCRC
Jackson Lears
Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot. Liveright, 836 pp., £35, October 2024, 978 0 87140 944 7
Nicole Flattery
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr. St Martin’s Press, 417 pp., £25.99, April 2024, 978 1 250 06635 0
Brian Dillon
At the Whitechapel: On Peter Kennard
Jonathan Parry
Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite by Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman. Harvard, 317 pp., £20, September 2024, 978 0 674 25771 9
Ange Mlinko
Two Poems
Stefan Collini
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi. Penguin, 358 pp., £10.99, June 2024, 978 0 241 68555 6
Adam Tooze
More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. Allen Lane, 310 pp., £25, October 2024, 978 0 241 71889 6
Susan Pedersen
The Solidarity Economy: Non-Profits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire by Tehila Sasson. Princeton, 298 pp., £35, July 2024, 978 0 691 25038 0
Colm Tóibín
In LA
Raghu Karnad
Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva by Janaki Bakhle. Princeton, 501 pp., £38, April 2024, 978 0 691 25036 6
Becca Rothfeld
The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Gitta Honegger. Yale, 496 pp., £25, April 2024, 978 0 300 28194 1
Rae Armantrout
Poem: ‘Inner’
Polly Dickson
‘The Golden Pot’ and Other Tales of the Uncanny by E.T.A. Hoffmann, translated by Peter Wortsman. Archipelago, 425 pp., £14.99, October 2023, 978 1 953861 70 2 The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann, translated by Jack Zipes. Yale, 277 pp., £30, April 2023, 978 0 300 26319 0
Raymond N. MacKenzie
Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy by Éric Hazan, translated by David Fernbach. Verso, 20 pp., £15.99, June 2024, 978 1 83976 725 8 The Lily in the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Peter Bush. NYRB, 263 pp., £16.99, July 2024, 978 1 68137 798 8
Fraser MacDonald
Diary: Remembering Nan Shepherd
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