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FROM THE MAGAZINE

July 2020

‘What’s really happening in America is a crisis of authority, from the White House down to your local police precinct. This in turn derives from a crisis in America’s identity — and that’s not about race or racism. It is a crisis in national confidence.’

Books

Young Hamlet

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell reviewed

By Matthew Adams

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Books

A time to keep silence

A History of Solitude by David Vincent reviewed

By Stuart Jeffries

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Art

Candid camera

Jacques Henri Lartigue composed his photographs like a painter

By William Boyd

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Art

Hello, boys: Lucas Cranach’s bodies beautiful

Why look at black-and-white books? You want the good stuff

By Laura Freeman

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Art

Revolution then: The Patriot stands alone

Gibson achieves peace of mind by dismembering a redcoat with a hatchet

By Craig Bruce Smith

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Art

Louis C.K. pulls it off

Funny is money

By James Delingpole

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Books

Something woke this way comes

Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton reviewed

By Andrew Stuttaford

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Books

Money trouble

Foretelling the End of Capitalism: Intellectual Misadventures Since Marx by Francesco Boldizzoni reviewed

By Frank Lawton

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Books

Tori rebel

Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Courage and Change by Tori Amos reviewed

By Andrew Doyle

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Books

The fatwa artists

Twitter mobs are making journalism and literature more boring

By Matt Purple

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