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Vol. 40 No. 20 · 25 October 2018
Eliot Weinberger
Ten Typical Days in Trump’s America
Letters
Colin Brewer, Marge Berer, Tom Crewe, Mark Jacobs, John Robbins, Geoffrey Taunton, Kirsten Sellars, Eoin Dillon, Lee Gillette, Andy Boobier
Meehan Crist
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer. Picador, 656 pp., £25, August 2018, 978 1 5098 1853 2
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘When Overfull of Pain I’
Simon Wren-Lewis
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze. Allen Lane, 706 pp., £30, August 2018, 978 1 84614 036 5
Lisa Cohen
Fashion Climbing: A New York Life by Bill Cunningham. Chatto, 256 pp., £16.99, October 2018, 978 1 78474 281 2
Jeremy Harding
At the Arts Club: Sanlé Sory
Clare Bucknell
The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable by Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier, edited by Carolyn Woodward. Kentucky, 406 pp., £86.50, November 2017, 978 0 8131 7410 5
Daniel Soar
Short Cuts: Sokal 2.0
Adewale Maja-Pearce
Prospects for Ambazonia
Christopher Tayler
Milkman by Anna Burns. Faber, 348 pp., £8.99, September 2018, 978 0 571 33875 7
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘A Star is Born’
Colin Kidd
Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain by Robert Saunders. Cambridge, 509 pp., £24.99, March 2018, 978 1 108 42535 3
Philip Ball
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote ‘Dracula’ by David J. Skal. Norton, 672 pp., £15.99, October 2017, 978 1 63149 386 7 The Cambridge Companion to ‘Dracula’ edited by Roger Luckhurst. Cambridge, 219 pp., £17.99, November 2017, 978 1 316 60708 4 The Vampire: A New History by Nick Groom. Yale, 287 pp., £16.99, October 2018, 978 0 300 23223 3
Lavinia Greenlaw
Two Poems
Adam Phillips
Confessions: A New Translation by Augustine, translated by Peter Constantine. Liveright, 329 pp., £22.99, February 2018, 978 0 87140 714 6
Ange Mlinko
On Sinéad Morrissey
Nico Muhly
Diary: How I Write Music
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