Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 47 No. 4

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An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career - new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poetsSpanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and…

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The forgotten story of how three women dazzled the world with their radical style and transformed the fashion of the French RevolutionJoséphine Bonaparte, future consort of Napoléon; Térézia Tallien, the most…

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A major new assessment of one of the most controversial topics in historyThe Bible observes that God made humanity ‘for a while a little lower than the angels’. If humans are that close to angels, does the difference lie in…

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Translated by Michael R. KatzA monumental new translation—the first in more than twenty years—of Russia’s greatest family drama, rendered with all the passion, humour and soul of the originalDostoevsky’s final,…

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The New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and literary novel about a woman upending her lifeA 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR BBC R4 OPEN BOOK,…

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Translated by Sam TaylorA brilliant reinvention of the detective novel, set in Renaissance Florence and packed with art, scandal, murder and scheming – from the author of the international bestseller HHhH.Florence, New…

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The dramatic history of a massacre in Damascus, and the collapse of the old Ottoman world order‘A superb account of the 1860 Damascus massacres—much neglected nowadays but central to the creation of the modern Middle East’…

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As we approach the 100th anniversary of Victor Serge's (1926) classic expose of political repression, the specter of fear as a tool of political repression is chillingly familiar to us in world increasingly threatened by totalitarianism.…