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London Review of Books Christmas Books

A Susceptible Man

Ian Sansom

  • Living in Time: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis by Albert Gelpi

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Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.

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Can we conceive of Beatrice ‘snapping’ like a shrew?
Helen Vendler: How not to do Dante

Next stop, Forbidden City
Eliot Weinberger: The Terrible Tale of Gu Cheng

Who has the gall?
Frank Kermode on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Awful but Cheerful
Gillian White: The Tentativeness of Elizabeth Bishop

‘I was there, I saw it’
Ian Sansom on Ted Hughes