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Vol. 47 No. 2 · 6 February 2025
David Runciman
Feeding Time at the Trough
Letters
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Andrew Sutherland, Andrew Prescott, Avram Alpert, Howard Cooper, Michael Checketts, Adam Lechmere
Tom Stevenson
Hamas: The Quest for Power by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell. Polity, 331 pp., £17.99, June 2024, 978 1 5095 6493 4
Jessie Childs
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege by Simon Parkin. Sceptre, 360 pp., £25, November 2024, 978 1 3997 1455 6
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Brutalist’
Alex de Waal
How to Measure Famine
Michael Dobson
White People in Shakespeare: Essays in Race, Culture and the Elite edited by Arthur Little. Bloomsbury, 320 pp., £21.99, January 2023, 978 1 350 28566 8 Shakespeare’s White Others by David Sterling Brown. Cambridge, 214 pp., £30, August 2023, 978 1 009 38416 2 The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare while Talking about Race by Farah Karim-Cooper. Oneworld, 328 pp., £11.99, April 2024, 978 0 86154 809 5
Katherine Rundell
Why children’s books?
Yun Sheng
Short Cuts: Chinese Fanfic
Toril Moi
If Only by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund. Verso, 343 pp., £12.99, September 2024, 978 1 83976 888 0
Daniel Soar
On Jean Tinguely
Brett Christophers
Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton. Verso, 401 pp., £25, October 2024, 978 1 80429 398 0
David Trotter
Kes by David Forrest. BFI, 112 pp., £12.99, May 2024, 978 1 83902 564 8
Christopher Snow Hopkins
At the Courtauld: Gothic Ivory
Ange Mlinko
The Stepdaughter by Caroline Blackwood. McNally Editions, 112 pp., $18, August 2024, 978 1 961341 12 8 The Fate of Mary Rose by Caroline Blackwood. Virago, 240 pp., £9.99, November 2024, 978 0 349 01904 8
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘The Falling’
Peter Phillips
Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician by Jeremy Dibble. Boydell, 701 pp., £70, April 2024, 978 1 78327 795 7
Patrick McGuinness
Diary: Defending Mr Jefferies
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