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contents july 2 0 2 3 • i s s u e 5 2 0 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editor David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial & Marketing Assistant Michael Delgado Marketing Manager Constance Watson Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly f rom: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • ISSN 0144 4360 Tel: 020 7437 9392 • editorial@literaryreview.co.uk letters@literaryreview.co.uk All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH • Tel: +44 (0) 1778 395 165 subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 terry@literaryreview.co.uk • david.sturge@btopenworld.com Print by: CPUK Print Publishing Ltd, www.cp-uk.co.uk Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: Seymour Distribution Ltd • Tel: 020 7429 4000 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Designed by Cog Design Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. The latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife. Literary Review | july 2023 2 diary D J Taylor politics & paranoia Michael Burleigh Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall – From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson Ferdinand Mount Tim Stanley Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism Jeff rey Toobin Heather Brooke The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World James Ball art Norma Clarke Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art & Life & Sudden Death Laura Cumming Tess Little Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art Lauren Elkin history Robert Gerwarth Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe Rachel Chrastil Allan Massie Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age Tom Holland Zareer Masani Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century Joya Chatterji Robert Ser vice Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West Calder Walton Simon Dixon The Ruble: A Political History Ekaterina Pravilova man & planet Felipe Fernández-Armesto In Search of the River Jordan James Fergusson • Water and Peace Alain Gachet • The Last Drop Tim Smedley Rachel Salvidge Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters Oliver Franklin-Wallis Oliver Balch Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature John Vidal
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contents the state we’re in Howard Davies Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization Harold James Frances Cairncross Fighting for Life Isabel Hardman • Our NHS Andrew Seaton • What is a Doctor? Phil Whitaker Eric Kaufmann Beyond Grievance: What the Left Gets Wrong About Ethnic Minorities Rakib Ehsan • How to Be a Patriot Sunder Katwala • It ’s Not About Whiteness, It ’s About Wealth Remi Adekoya • This is Not America To m i w a O w o l a d e town & country Ben Wilson The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London Niall Kishtainy Mathew Lyons Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside Rebecca Smith • Shaping the Wild: Wisdom f rom a Welsh Hill Farm David Elias Adrian Tinniswood How the Country House became English Stephanie Barczewski biography & memoir Caroline Moorehead Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival Daniel Finkelstein Richard Smyth The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin Patr ic k Barkham Richard Davenport-Hines Last Post Frederic Raphael Robert Colls One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On Wes Streeting notebook Sarah Dunant The Marchioness & Me on campus William Whyte The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge Tamson Pietsch James Purdon Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study John Guillory Gordon Marsden Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People Joanna Bourke general Ruth Dudley Edwards A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder Mark O’Connell Lucy Lethbridge Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses Aarathi Prasad Tim Richardson Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place Alice Maddicott fiction Kevin Power Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck Simon Baker Be Mine Richard Ford Emma Garman Ordinary Human Failings Megan Nolan Sam Kitchener The Black Eden Richard T Kelly Declan Ryan The Late Americans Brandon Taylor Lindsay Duguid Pet Catherine Chidgey Archie Cornish Kala Colin Walsh Kathy O’Shaughnessy After the Funeral Tessa Hadley children’s books Philip Womack fiction in brief Penance Eliza Clark • Beethoven’s Assassins Andrew Crumey • Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead crime Natasha Cooper silenced voices Lucy Popescu José Rubén Zamora Marroquín bookends Adam Douglas Don’t Judge a Book by its Price Tag LR Bookshop Letters Crossword july 2023 | Literary Review 3

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contents the state we’re in Howard Davies

Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization Harold James Frances Cairncross

Fighting for Life Isabel Hardman • Our NHS Andrew Seaton • What is a Doctor? Phil Whitaker Eric Kaufmann

Beyond Grievance: What the Left Gets Wrong About Ethnic Minorities Rakib Ehsan • How to Be a Patriot Sunder Katwala • It ’s Not About Whiteness, It ’s About Wealth Remi Adekoya • This is Not America To m i w a O w o l a d e town & country Ben Wilson

The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London Niall Kishtainy Mathew Lyons

Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside Rebecca Smith • Shaping the Wild: Wisdom f rom a Welsh Hill Farm David Elias Adrian Tinniswood

How the Country House became English Stephanie Barczewski biography & memoir Caroline Moorehead

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival Daniel Finkelstein Richard Smyth

The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin Patr ic k Barkham Richard Davenport-Hines

Last Post Frederic Raphael Robert Colls

One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On Wes Streeting notebook Sarah Dunant The Marchioness & Me on campus William Whyte

The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge Tamson Pietsch James Purdon

Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study John Guillory Gordon Marsden

Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People Joanna Bourke general Ruth Dudley Edwards

A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder Mark O’Connell Lucy Lethbridge

Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses Aarathi Prasad Tim Richardson

Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place Alice Maddicott fiction Kevin Power

Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck Simon Baker

Be Mine Richard Ford Emma Garman

Ordinary Human Failings Megan Nolan Sam Kitchener

The Black Eden Richard T Kelly Declan Ryan

The Late Americans Brandon Taylor Lindsay Duguid

Pet Catherine Chidgey Archie Cornish

Kala Colin Walsh Kathy O’Shaughnessy

After the Funeral Tessa Hadley children’s books Philip Womack fiction in brief Penance Eliza Clark • Beethoven’s Assassins Andrew Crumey • Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead crime Natasha Cooper silenced voices Lucy Popescu José Rubén Zamora Marroquín bookends Adam Douglas Don’t Judge a Book by its Price Tag

LR Bookshop Letters Crossword july 2023 | Literary Review 3

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