London Review of Books 46/21 7 November 2024

Letters Rosanna Ellul, Peter J. Andrews, Owain Lawson, Nick Young, David Harris, Celeste Marcus, Dany Nobus, Patrick Worsnip, Nikolay Sturm, Sandra Megaffin, Dave Morris, Nick Totton, Roger Britton
Adam Tooze Great Power Politics
Jenny Turner Love’s Work by Gillian Rose
Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory by Gillian Rose, edited by Robert Lucas Scott and James Gordon Finlayson
Josephine Quinn At the British Museum: ‘Silk Roads’
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett
A Woman like Me by Diane Abbott
Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale
Blake Morrison
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Tom Shippey
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich
Laleh Khalili
The Contest for the Indian Ocean and the Making of a New World Order by Darshana M. Baruah
Peter GeogheganShort Cuts: BP in Azerbaijan
Malcolm Gaskill
A History of Fireworks: From Their Origins to the Present Day by John Withington
Julian Barnes
A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front by Adam D. Zientek
Nick Richardson
The Grimoire Encyclopedia: Volume 1 by David Rankine
The Grimoire Encyclopedia: Volume 2 by David Rankine
Art of the Grimoire by Owen Davies
Lorraine Daston
Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology by Gregory Radick
David MorleyFrom ‘Seven Women Scientists’
Nabil SalihDiary: Return to Baghdad