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Vol. 46 No. 14 · 18 July 2024
Letters
Michael Neill, Simon Murray, Sheona York, Tim Cundy, Richard Norton-Taylor, John Worthen, Edward Luttwak, David Carpenter
James Butler
What’s a majority for?
Stephen Sedley
The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History by Allen D. Boyer and Mark Nicholls. Routledge, 340 pp., £135, February, 978 0 367 50993 4
Rae Armantrout
Poem: ‘Hell’
Christian Lorentzen
The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future by Franklin Foer. Penguin, 432 pp., £24, September 2023, 978 1 101 98114 6 The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House by Chris Whipple. Scribner, 409 pp., £12.99, December 2023, 978 1 9821 0644 7 The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy after Trump by Alexander Ward. Portfolio, 354 pp., £28.99, February, 978 0 593 53907 1
Rosemary Hill
At the William Morris Gallery: On Mingei
Thomas Meaney
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen. Norton, 571 pp., £17.99, October 2023, 978 1 324 09406 7 The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History by Ned Blackhawk. Yale, 596 pp., £28, April 2023, 978 0 300 24405 2 Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes. Haymarket, 320 pp., £14.99, July, 979 8 88890 082 6
Mélissa Cornet
On Gender Apartheid
David Trotter
The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film by David Thomson. Harper, 435 pp., £25, January, 978 0 06 304141 7
Blake Morrison
The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma. Hutchinson Heinemann, 358 pp., £16.99, May, 978 1 5291 5346 0
Gavin Francis
Short Cuts: Medicine Shortages
Alexander Bevilacqua
Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The 16th-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East and Europe by Alan Verskin. Stanford, 189 pp., £23.99, January 2023, 978 1 5036 3443 5
Andrew O’Hagan
The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power by Tom Bower. HarperCollins, 376 pp., £22, June, 978 0 00 863887 0
David Goldblatt
What are the Olympics for? by Jules Boykoff. Bristol, 157 pp., £8.99, March, 978 1 5292 3028 4 Igniting the Games: The Evolution of the Olympics and Bach’s Legacy by David Miller. Pitch, 272 pp., £12.99, July 2022, 978 1 80150 142 2
Colin Kidd
Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy and Sociability by Robin Douglass. Princeton, 249 pp., £30, May 2023, 978 0 691 21917 2
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘Blackbird at Dawn’
Nora Goldschmidt
Rome’s Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas by Emily Gowers. Princeton, 463 pp., £38, February, 978 0 691 19314 4
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Beast’
Ulinka Rublack
Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England by Christina J. Faraday. Paul Mellon, 198 pp., £45, April 2023, 978 1 913107 37 6
Dani Garavelli
Diary: Election Night in Glasgow
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