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Vol. 39 No. 12 · 15 June 2017
Letters
James Grainger, Josh Beer, Noam Chomsky, Jackson Lears, Philip Murphy, Annalena McAfee, Paul Sutton, David Watson, Harry Marsh, Jack Blum, David Elstein, Jim Chaplin
James Wood
Thomas Hardy: Half A Londoner by Mark Ford. Harvard, 305 pp., £20, October 2016, 978 0 674 73789 1
Alex de Waal
The Nazis Used It, We Use It
Ian Jack
What Next: How to Get the Best from Brexit by Daniel Hannan. Head of Zeus, 298 pp., £9.99, November 2016, 978 1 78669 193 4 The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign by Arron Banks. Biteback, 354 pp., £9.99, June 2017, 978 1 78590 205 5 All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class by Tim Shipman. William Collins, 688 pp., £9.99, June 2017, 978 0 00 821517 0
Jérôme Tubiana
Short Cuts: Migrant Smugglers
Mike Jay
Mad-Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760-1913 by Joel Peter Eigen. Johns Hopkins, 206 pp., £29.50, September 2016, 978 1 4214 2048 6
Sara Roy
If Israel were smart
Fredric Jameson
No Magic, No Metaphor
John-Paul Stonard
At the Palace Museum: Chinese Painting
Michael Hofmann
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li. Hamish Hamilton, 208 pp., £14.99, February 2017, 978 0 241 28395 0
Clare Bucknell
The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin edited by Peter Sabor. Cambridge, three vols, 1200 pp., £275, November 2016, 978 1 107 14552 8
Adam Smyth
Paper: Paging through History by Mark Kurlansky. Norton, 416 pp., £12.99, June 2017, 978 0 393 35370 9
Sadiah Qureshi
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga. Pan Macmillan, 624 pp., £25, November 2016, 978 1 4472 9973 8
Stephen Knight
Poem: ‘Where This Train Terminates’
Denis Feeney
Virgil’s Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the ‘Aeneid’ by Anne Rogerson. Cambridge, 246 pp., £75, January 2017, 978 1 107 11539 2
Michael Wood
At the Movies: From ‘Alien’ to ‘Covenant’
Christopher Tayler
The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor. Harvill Secker, 390 pp., £16.99, May 2017, 978 1 910701 58 4
Inigo Thomas
Diary: My Father, Hugh Thomas
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