LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features analyses on geopolitical tensions, national identities, and cultural retrospectives, including pieces on North Korea, English nationalism, Britain’s energy crisis, Italy’s neo-fascist cults, photographer Lisette Model, and a review of Marlon James’s novel.

Fallout: The Inside Story of America’s Failure to Disarm North Korea  by Joel S. Wit.

The West: The History of an Idea by Georgios Varouxakis

Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War Two to Thatcherism by Colin Kidd

Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity by John Ma

Voltaire’s Workshop: The Sources of ‘Candide’ by Edward M. Langille