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Vol. 47 No. 7 · 17 April 2025
Patrick Cockburn
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama by Ben Macintyre. Penguin, 400 pp., £10.99, May, 978 1 4059 6174 5
Letters
China Miéville, Robert Barnes, Nicholas Thomas, Benjamin Letzler, Rachel Careau, Samuel Earle, Michael Commins, Dave Trevor
James Meek
‘Everything is possible’
John Lanchester
Short Cuts: Labour’s Straitjacket
James Vincent
Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction by Jerry Brotton. Allen Lane, 180 pp., £20, September 2024, 978 0 241 55687 0
Jonathan Parry
The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century by Barbara Emerson. Hurst, 549 pp., £35, May 2024, 978 1 80526 057 8
Fraser MacDonald
On Compost
Miriam Dobson
Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women by Alexis Peri. Harvard, 290 pp., £29.95, October 2024, 978 0 674 98758 6
Tom Crewe
Cartomania: Photography and Celebrity in the 19th Century by Paul Frecker. September, 474 pp., £40, June 2024, 978 1 914613 62 3
Malcolm Gaskill
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War by Lyndal Roper. Basic, 527 pp., £30, February, 978 1 3998 1802 5
Dani Garavelli
At the Whisky Bond: The Alasdair Gray Archive
Michael Wood
The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti. NYRB, 328 pp., £17.99, January, 978 1 68137 867 1 The Singularity by Dino Buzzati, translated by Anne Milano Appel. NYRB, 127 pp., £14.99, June 2024, 978 1 68137 800 8 The Stronghold by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti. NYRB, 207 pp., £16.99, May 2023, 978 1 68137 714 8
Erin Maglaque
Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy Past and Present by Isabel Davis. MIT, 296 pp., £41, March, 978 0 262 04948 1
Diane Williams
Story: ‘The Place for Love in Human Life’
Ed Kiely
The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence by John Pring. Pluto, 292 pp., £16.99, August 2024, 978 0 7453 4989 3
Liam Shaw
Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans by Bill Schutt. Algonquin, 320 pp., $24.99, August 2024, 978 1 64375 178 8
Gazelle Mba
African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History by Hakim Adi. Penguin, 688 pp., £18.99, September 2023, 978 1 80206 068 3
Jordan Kisner
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated by Sophie Hughes. Fourth Estate, 261 pp., £9.99, April, 978 0 00 860797 5
Em Hogan
Playboy by Constance Debré, translated by Holly James. Tuskar Rock, 172 pp., £10.99, May 2024, 978 1 80081 984 9 Love Me Tender by Constance Debré, translated by Holly James. Tuskar Rock, 165 pp., £10.99, November 2023, 978 1 80081 484 4 Name by Constance Debré, translated by Lauren Elkin. Tuskar Rock, 144 pp., £10.99, April, 978 1 80081 987 0
Inigo Thomas
Diary: Rome, Closed City
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