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Vol. 47 No. 13 · 24 July 2025
Jackson Lears
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck. Verso, 556 pp., £30, March, 978 1 83674 072 8
Letters
David Howell, Christopher Waldo, Tom Crewe, Marina Donald (née Grinberga, then Greene), Malcolm Andrew, John McKay, John Stevenson, Mat Snow, Blaine Stothard, Neil Jeffares
David Trotter
Putt for Dough
Huw Lemmey
Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?
Colin Burrow
State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature by Dan Sperrin. Princeton, 800 pp., £38, July, 978 0 691 19558 2
Adam Shatz
The World since 7 October
Barbara Everett
An East Wind behind it
Nicole Flattery
The Pilgrimage by John Broderick. McNally, 207 pp., £13.99, March, 978 1 946022 95 0
Anthony Grafton
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries by Andrew Hui. Princeton, 303 pp., £25, January, 978 0 691 24332 0 The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain by Seth Kimmel. Chicago, 262 pp., £40, May 2024, 978 0 226 83317 0
Anna McGee
In Florence
Vincent Brown
Yale and Slavery: A History by David W. Blight. Yale, 432 pp., £14.99, April, 978 0 300 28184 2
Kathleen Jamie
Poem: ‘Considering a Hike to Yon Tree’
Jonathan Parry
Chain of Fire: Campaigning in Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-98 by Peter Hart. Profile, 444 pp., £30, February, 978 1 80081 073 0
Jon Day
Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun by Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden. Melville House, 358 pp., £30, July 2024, 978 1 68589 099 5 Dr Calhoun’s Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia and the Future of Humanity by Lee Alan Dugatkin. Chicago, 295 pp., £22, October 2024, 978 0 226 82785 8
Stephen Buranyi
The Power of Prions: The Strange and Essential Proteins That Can Cause Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Other Diseases by Michel Brahic. Princeton, 175 pp., £20, January, 978 0 691 25238 4
Eleanor Nairne
At the Whitney: Amy Sherald’s Subjects
Becca Rothfeld
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte. Fourth Estate, 240 pp., £16.99, February, 978 0 00 875941 4
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘28 Years Later’
Ange Mlinko
Theory and Practice by Michelle de Kretser. Sort of Books, 183 pp., £12.99, February, 978 1 914502 16 3
Gazelle Mba
Diary: Borno after the Flood
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