Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 47 No. 12

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The complete edition of Sylvia Plath's prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material, edited by Peter K. Steinberg.The Collected Prose stands alongside the Journals (2000) and the two…

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The unmissable new book from the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers EAST WEST STREET and THE RATLINE'A globe-trotting legal thriller, a personal history and a twin portrait of a pair of…

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‘An enthralling narrative of the rise and fall of Britain’s republican experiment.’DOMINIC SANDBROOK, The Times ‘Best History Books of 2024’‘A gripping tale of political and cultural crisis but also one…

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Why did England’s one experiment in republican rule fail? Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of…

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In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist…

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A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuriesIn Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides…

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The new collection of essays, poetry and stories from the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker‘I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration’ PHILIP PULLMAN‘One of Britain’s greatest…

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“Dear Miss Maxfeld . . . What I’m really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish you were one too but I don’t think it’s possible there could be so many in one school, do you? Probably there is only…

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How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual sceneIn the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country.…

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A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policyAt the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of…

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Translated by Ross Benjamin‘Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll’ New York Times‘Nothing short of brilliant’ Wall Street Journal‘A subtle, often darkly funny novel about the relationship between art…