Some recent books – Patrick Cockburn’s The Rise of Islamic State and Walter Benjamin’s The Origins of German Tragic Drama, which I bought in the Verso sale; Arnault Skornicki, La grande soif de l’État. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales, which I was kindly sent by the author; and Claire Colebrook and Jason Maxwell, Agamben which I’d pre-ordered from Polity in recompense for review work. The rest are journal issues, including the launch issue of GeoHumanities.