- The eye of the needle, again John Quiggin, Crooked Timber
- The audible universe Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex
- “They don’t want the wage system to go away. They just want to run it.” Thomas Knapp, TGC
- The making of Soviet Kazakhstan Joshua Bird, Asian Review of Books
Kazakhstan
Nightcap
- United States of Africa? Hakim Adi, History Today
- Eric Hobsbawm’s awkward embrace of the Establishment Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New Republic
- The philosopher who usurped Aristotle’s place in the Islamic world Peter Adamson, Times Literary Supplement
- Who are the real Kazakhs? Michael Griffin, Literary Review