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Vol. 39 No. 10 · 18 May 2017
Nicholas Spice
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances Wilson. Bloomsbury, 397 pp., £25, April 2016, 978 1 4088 3977 5
Letters
Michael Richards, Julian Pratt, Peter Greenhill, Didier Goyvaerts, Eric Redman, Nick Moss, Emily Short, Libby Ruffle, Iain Sinclair, Mary Hannity, Tony Brenton
Tom Crewe
What will be left?
Charles Simic
Three Poems
James Wolcott
Making It by Norman Podhoretz. NYRB, 368 pp., £13.98, May 2017, 978 1 68137 080 4
Bruce Cumings
A Murderous History of Korea
Alice Spawls
At Dulwich: Vanessa Bell
Fredrik Logevall
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye. Ballantine, 624 pp., £15.58, May 2017, 978 0 8129 8350 0
Alan Finlayson
Brexitism
Michael Symmons Roberts
Two Poems
Adam Mars-Jones
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Corsair, 209 pp., £12.99, February 2017, 978 1 4721 5255 8
Francis FitzGibbon
Short Cuts: Criminal Justice after Brexit
Karma Nabulsi
Don’t Go to the Doctor
Thomas Jones
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh. Chicago, 176 pp., £15.50, September 2016, 978 0 226 32303 9
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Blow-Up’
David Craig
Set Adrift upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances by James Hunter. Birlinn, 572 pp., £14.99, September 2016, 978 1 78027 354 9
John Gallagher
Sleep in Early Modern England by Sasha Handley. Yale, 280 pp., £25, August 2016, 978 0 300 22039 1
Karen Solie
Two Poems
Ian Patterson
Mount! by Jilly Cooper. Corgi, 610 pp., £7.99, February 2017, 978 0 552 17028 4
Hisham Matar
Diary: Writing with the Horror
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