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Vol. 47 No. 4 · 6 March 2025
Rosemary Hill
Liberty, Equality, Fashion: The Women who Styled the French Revolution by Anne Higonnet. Norton, 286 pp., £25, April 2024, 978 0 393 86795 4
Letters
Francis FitzGibbon, Fred Clough, Michael Collins, Thom Cross, Eric Pineault, Mark Derby, James Wilson, Damian Grant, Joe Keaney, Alison Vaspe, Mick Bellmooney, George Benjamin, Benjamin Friedman
John Gallagher
‘La Langue anglaise n’existe pas’: C’est du français mal prononcé by Bernard Cerquiglini. Gallimard, 175 pp., €8, March 2024, 978 2 07 305661 0
Daniel Soar
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael Katz. Liveright, 900 pp., £15.99, July 2024, 978 1 324 09510 1
Aziz Huq
Short Cuts: Executive Hyperactivity
Tom Stevenson
Beyond Mesopotamia
James Meek
An Enemy to Its Friends
Anne Carson
Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
Amber Medland
All Fours by Miranda July. Canongate, 336 pp., £20, May 2024, 978 1 83885 344 0
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘I’m Still Here’
Thomas Jones
Perspectives by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor. Harvill Secker, 264 pp., £18.99, February, 978 1 78730 448 2
Peter Geoghegan
Making Media Great Again
Frances Morgan
At K20: On Yoko Ono
Lucy Wooding
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Allen Lane, 660 pp., £35, September 2024, 978 0 241 40093 7
Youssef Ben Ismail
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World by Eugene Rogan. Allen Lane, 377 pp., £30, May 2024, 978 0 241 64690 8
Andrea Brady
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck by Dionne Brand. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 217 pp., $27, October 2024, 978 0 374 61484 3 Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand. Penguin, 619 pp., £16.99, July 2023, 978 0 241 63979 5
Greg Afinogenov
What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression: A Guide for Activists by Victor Serge, translated by Judith White. Seven Stories, 146 pp., £12.99, June 2024, 978 1 64421 367 4 Revolutionary Philanthropy: Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia by Stuart Finkel. Oxford, 318 pp., £90, July 2024, 978 0 19 891610 9
Stephanie Burt
Poem: ‘Blown Milkweed Pods’
Helen Sullivan
Diary: Trapped in the Mine
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