Vol. 46 No. 2 · 25 January 2024

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Jon McNaught

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Vol. 46 No. 2 · 25 January 2024

Letters

Jonathan Brown, T.J. Clark, David Lupher, James Knabe, Simon Ravens, Sophie Hermanns, Allan House, Jack Grahl, Mark Mildred, Debby Raven

Susan Eilenberg

Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller. Vintage, 357 pp., £12.99, April 2023, 978 1 5291 1090 6
Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse by Anahid Nersessian. Verso, 136 pp., £12.99, November 2022, 978 1 80429 034 7

Bridget Alsdorf

At the Barnes: On Marie Laurencin

Rosemary Hill

Hilda Matheson: A Life of Secrets and Broadcasts by Michael Carney and Kate Murphy. Handheld, 260 pp., £13.99, September 2023, 978 1 912766 72 7

Randall Kennedy

Browbeating

Rae Armantrout

Two Poems

Sheila Fitzpatrick

A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid. John Murray, 366 pp., £25, November 2023, 978 1 5293 2676 5

Tom Stevenson

Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War by Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan. Hurst, 459 pp., £25, February 2023, 978 1 78738 811 6

Conor Gearty

Short Cuts: Versions of Denial

Thomas Keymer

Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early 18th-Century Literature by Abigail Williams. Princeton, 328 pp., £30, November 2023, 978 0 691 17068 8

Chris Power

Life Is Everywhere by Lucy Ives. Peninsula, 452 pp., £12.99, April 2023, 978 1 913512 29 3

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Poor Things’

Patricia Lockwood

Molly by Blake Butler. Archway, 320 pp., £14, December 2023, 978 1 64823 037 0

Paul Keegan

Philip Guston  Tate Modern, until 25 February 2024

Liam Shaw

Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils by Dale E. Greenwalt. Princeton, 278 pp., £22, March 2023, 978 0 691 22114 4

Dani Garavelli

Diary: Searching for the ‘Bonhomme Richard’

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