Vol. 39 No. 9 · 4 May 2017

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Cover Artist

Anne Rothenstein

Letters

Paul Clark, Adrian Bowyer, Iain Sinclair, Paul Mills, Norma Clarke, Karl Sabbagh, Rosemary Hill, Peter Smith, Rosie Brocklehurst, Jonathan Lynn, The Editors

Adam Shatz

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman

Stephen Sedley

Defining Anti-Semitism

Tim Parks

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of ‘Les Misérables’ by David Bellos

Richard Wilson

Bonfire in Merrie England

Nicholas Penny

At Tate Britain: Pre-Raphaelite works on paper

Jackson Lears

Why Only Us: Language and Evolution by Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky
Because We Say So by Noam Chomsky
What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky
Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals by Neil Smith and Nicholas Allott

Ange Mlinko

Poem: ‘A Horse Does Not Want to Be Fedexed’

Wes Enzinna

Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin by Janet Biehl

Anne Wagner

At the Royal Academy: America after the Fall

Lidija Haas

The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy

Wolfgang Streeck

German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Werner Plumpe
The Seven Secrets of Germany: Economic Resilience in an Era of Global Turbulence by David Audretsch and Erik Lehmann
Germany’s Role in the Euro Crisis: Berlin’s Quest for a More Perfect Monetary Union by Franz-Josef Meiers

Thomas Meaney

Short Cuts: Ersatz Tyrants

Michael Kulikowski

Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard by Guy de la Bédoyère

Michael Wood

Empson’s Buddha

Theo Tait

A Natural by Ross Raisin

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

The Baghdad Road

Jeremy Harding

Look Back in Laughter: Oxford’s Postwar Golden Age by R.W. Johnson
How Long Will South Africa Survive? The Looming Crisis by R.W. Johnson

Barbara Everett

Six Poems

Josephine Quinn

Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint by David Potter

Fida Jiryis

Diary: Arabs of Inside

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