Vol. 46 No. 15 · 1 August 2024

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Cover Artist

Anne Rothenstein

Andrew O’Hagan

The Hard Zone

Letters

David Elstein, Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth, Will Hadwen, Michael Gray, Craig McFarlane, Nigel Saxby, Paul Evans, Olivia Judson, Patrick O’Connor, Harry Penfold

David Todd

Short Cuts: Bonapartism, Gaullism, Macronism

Nicola Jennings

Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV by Amanda Wunder. Yale, 272 pp., £45, February, 978 0 300 24654 4

Michael Kulikowski

The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis. Oxford, 1133 pp., £34.99, February, 978 0 19 754932 2

Raymond Antrobus

Poem: ‘The Noise’

Tom Stevenson

Nato: From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance by Sten Rynning. Yale, 345 pp., £20, March, 978 0 300 27011 2
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of Nato by Peter Apps. Wildfire, 624 pp., £25, February, 978 1 0354 0575 6
Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance since the Cold War edited by Grey Anderson. Verso, 356 pp., £19.99, July 2023, 978 1 80429 237 2

Gabriel Winant

Everything Is Possible: Anti-fascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism by Joseph Fronczak. Yale, 350 pp., £25, February 2023, 978 0 300 25117 3

Sophie Lewis

On Gaslighting by Kate Abramson. Princeton, 217 pp., £20, May, 978 0 691 24938 4

Diane Williams

Two Stories

Jonathan Parry

Trailblazer: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, the First Feminist to Change Our World by Jane Robinson. Doubleday, 397 pp., £25, February, 978 0 85752 777 6

Christienna Fryar

Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire by Erik Linstrum. Oxford, 313 pp., £26.99, April 2023, 978 0 19 757203 0

Karen Solie

Poem: ‘Meadowlark’

Adam Mars-Jones

Choice by Neel Mukherjee. Atlantic, 311 pp., £18.99, April, 978 1 80546 049 7

Stephanie Burt

On Monica Youn

A.W. Moore

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Michael Beaney. Oxford, 100 pp., £8.99, May 2023, 978 0 19 886137 9
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Alexander Booth. Penguin, 94 pp., £14.99, December 2023, 978 0 241 68195 4
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Damion Searls. Norton, 181 pp., £19.99, April, 978 1 324 09243 8

Brian Dillon

At the Museum Ludwig: Roni Horn’s Conceptualism

Oliver Whang

Diary: Two Appalachias

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