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Vol. 39 No. 3 · 2 February 2017
Hilary Mantel
Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower by Susan Higginbotham. Amberley, 214 pp., £16.99, August 2016, 978 1 4456 3594 1
Letters
Nikil Saval, Harry Harmer, Annette Bonnell, Harvey Taylor, Edward Black, Jeff Rodman, Roger Morsley-Smith, Graham Loud, Benjamin Ralph, Peter Fernandes, Peter Thornton, Esther Chadwick
Patrick Cockburn
Who supplies the news?
Norman Dombey
North Korea’s Bomb
Isabel Hull
‘Lusitania’: The Cultural History of a Catastrophe by Willi Jasper, translated by Stewart Spencer. Yale, 233 pp., £18.99, September 2016, 978 0 300 22138 1
Adam Mars-Jones
The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams. Tuskar Rock, 490 pp., £16.99, November 2016, 978 1 78125 746 3 Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams. Tin House, 220 pp., £16.95, July 2016, 978 1 941040 35 5
T.J. Clark
At Tate Britain: Paul Nash
William Davies
The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath by Ben Bernanke. Norton, 624 pp., £27.99, October 2015, 978 0 393 24721 3 The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy by Mervyn King. Little Brown, 448 pp., £25, March 2017, 978 0 349 14067 4
John Lanchester
Short Cuts: Amazon Echo
Jonah Miller
Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status and the Social Order in Early Modern England by Alexandra Shepard. Oxford, 357 pp., £65, February 2015, 978 0 19 960079 3
Peter Pomerantsev
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi, translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg. Pushkin, 352 pp., £16.99, May 2016, 978 1 78227 169 7 Rasputin and Other Ironies by Teffi, translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Rose France and Anne Marie Jackson. Pushkin, 224 pp., £8.99, May 2016, 978 1 78227 217 5 Subtly Worded by Teffi, translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, Natalia Wase, Clare Kitson and Irina Steinberg. Pushkin, 304 pp., £12, June 2014, 978 1 78227 037 9
John Lahr
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen. Simon and Schuster, 510 pp., £20, September 2016, 978 1 4711 5779 0
Yonatan Mendel
Activestills
J. Robert Lennon
4321 by Paul Auster. Faber, 866 pp., £20, January 2017, 978 0 571 32462 0
Devin Johnston
Poem: ‘A Small Kingdom’
Thomas Meaney
Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World by Steven Kemper. Chicago, 480 pp., £31.50, January 2015, 978 0 226 19907 8 Tamil: A Biography by David Shulman. Harvard, 416 pp., £25, September 2016, 978 0 674 05992 4 The Seasons of Trouble: Life amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War by Rohini Mohan. Verso, 368 pp., £16.99, October 2015, 978 1 78168 883 0
Stephanie Burt
On the Dickman Brothers
Alison Light
Diary: Raphael Samuel
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