August 2023 Issue Damian Le Bas Home Is Where the Hatred Is Europe and the Roma: A History of Fascination and Fear By Klaus-Michael Bogdal Travellers through Time: A Gypsy History By Jeremy Harte
December 2017 Issue David Gelber Filling in the Blanks Black Tudors: The Untold Story By Miranda Kaufmann LR
August 2017 Issue Simon Hall Thinking in Black & White Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America By Ibram X Kendi LR
August 2017 Issue Piers Brendon Home from Home? Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain By Clair Wills
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February 2009 Issue Kenan Malik The Unity of Man Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins By Adrian Desmond and James Moore LR
February 2014 Issue David Nirenberg Hell is Other Peoples Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century By Francisco Bethencourt LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, or is there something awry?
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D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
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