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Fintan O’Toole is a columnist for The Irish Times and the Leonard L. Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. His most recent book is The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism. (March 2021)
A Moral Witness
Martha Gellhorn’s letters to her lovers and intimate friends involve a remarkable feat of reportage on the war within Gellhorn herself
Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War, 1930–1949
edited by Janet Somerville
October 8, 2020 issue
The Union Without Qualities
The Capital
by Robert Menasse, translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch
October 24, 2019 issue
Vile Bodies
Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
by Noelle Gallagher
June 27, 2019 issue
The King and I
Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics
by Chris Christie
Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
by Cliff Sims
March 21, 2019 issue
Celtic Myths
The Coming of the Celts, AD 1860: Celtic Nationalism in Ireland and Wales
by Caoimhín De Barra
March 7, 2019 issue
Saboteur in Chief
When you want to discredit government itself, obliviousness and ineptitude are their own rewards.
The Fifth Risk
by Michael Lewis
December 6, 2018 issue
Powder His Face
Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World
by Peter McNeil
October 11, 2018 issue
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