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July/August 2017
Yuri Slezkine's The House of Government tells the story of a place where revolutionaries came home and the revolution came to die
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July/August 2017
Christopher Tadgell's seven-volume Architecture In Context is astonishingly ambitious, and effortlessly even-handed
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July/August 2017
Stephen Glover's Fleet Street novel Splash! is a burlesque treat
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June 2017
The Durrells' Anglo-Greek love affair — and Catherine Brown's
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