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Vol. 39 No. 22 · 16 November 2017
Adam Shatz
The President and the Bomb
Letters
John Dewey, David Hall, Julian Hargreaves, Michael Selzer, Kate Griffin, Blaine Stothard, Philip Jacobson, Syed Hashmi
Qi Gua
The Headline Prince
T.J. Clark
Reinstall the Footlights
Owen Bennett-Jones
Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life by Malachi O’Doherty. Faber, 356 pp., £14.99, September 2017, 978 0 571 31595 6
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead’
Alice Spawls
If It Weren’t for Charlotte
Danny Dorling
Short Cuts: Life Expectancy
Daniel Smith
A Smell of Burning: The Story of Epilepsy by Colin Grant. Cape, 242 pp., £16.99, August 2016, 978 0 224 10182 0 The End of Epilepsy? A History of the Modern Era of Epilepsy, 1860-2010 by Dieter Schmidt and Simon Shorvon. Oxford, 208 pp., £39.99, September 2016, 978 0 19 872590 9
Tom Crewe
At the Queen’s Gallery, Edinburgh: Roger Fenton
Thomas Jones
Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Our World by Greg Milner. Granta, 336 pp., £9.99, June 2017, 978 1 84708 709 6
Michael Kulikowski
The Shape of the Roman Order: The Republic and Its Spaces by Daniel J. Gargola. North Carolina, 320 pp., £47.95, March 2017, 978 1 4696 3182 0 The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City edited by Andrea Carandini, translated by Andrew Campbell Halavais. Princeton, 1280 pp., £148.95, February 2017, 978 0 691 16347 5
Caroline Shenton
Fixing Westminster
Theo Tait
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. Hamish Hamilton, 229 pp., £12.99, March 2017, 978 0 241 29008 8
Christopher Tayler
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie. Cape, 370 pp., £18.99, September 2017, 978 1 78733 015 3
Marina Warner
Diary: Literary Diplomacy
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