Vol. 46 No. 3 · 8 February 2024

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Vol. 46 No. 3 · 8 February 2024

James Butler

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins. Wildfire, 336 pp., £25, October 2023, 978 1 0354 1227 3
The Populist Moment: The Left after the Great Recession by Anton Jäger and Arthur Borriello. Verso, 214 pp., £10.99, September 2023, 978 1 80429 248 8

Letters

Jim Pennington, James Campbell, Raymond Foye, Matthew Sheldon, Michael Holzman, Henry Whorwood, Paul Lusk, Rob Wills, John Ellis, Julie Stielstra, Michael G. Cronin, David Schleifer

Rebecca Solnit

In the Shadow of Silicon Valley

Jan-Werner Müller

Protest Problems

Adam Mars-Jones

Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Jonathan Cape, 136 pp., £14.99, November 2023, 978 1 78733 434 2

Jonathan Rée

Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Émile Perreau-Saussine, translated by Nathan J. Pinkoski. Notre Dame, 197 pp., £36, September 2022, 978 0 268 20325 2

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘Upon the Furthest Slope You Know’

Tom Stevenson

Rubble from Bone

Matt Foot

Short Cuts: Corrupt Cops

Anna Della Subin

Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author by Sophus Helle. Yale, 259 pp., £18.99, May 2023, 978 0 300 26417 3

Owen Hatherley

In Surrey Quays

Lucy Wooding

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe by John Guy and Julia Fox. Bloomsbury, 581 pp., £30, September 2023, 978 1 5266 3152 7

Tom Crewe

Balzac didn’t dare

Michael Hofmann

At the Kunsthalle: On Caspar David Friedrich

Jon Day

Unbreakable by Ronnie O’Sullivan. Seven Dials, 262 pp., £22, May 2023, 978 1 3996 1001 8

Barbara Everett

Two Poems

Malcolm Gaskill

The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland. Bantam, 565 pp., £25, September 2023, 978 1 78763 668 2

Gazelle Mba

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid. Picador, 144 pp., £9.99, July 2022, 978 1 5290 7688 2
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid. Picador, 80 pp., £9.99, July 2022, 978 1 5290 7678 3
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid. Picador, 208 pp., £9.99, July 2022, 978 1 5290 7675 2
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid. Picador, 160 pp., £9.99, July 2022, 978 1 5290 7712 4

Raghu Karnad

Diary: Looking for Indraprastha

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