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Vol. 46 No. 19 · 10 October 2024
Letters
Cormac Chester, James McKinna, Helen King, David Ganz, Colin Lovelace, Malin Hay, Brigid von Preussen, Ken Hammond, Peter Stott, David Aneurin Morgan, Barry Goldman
Jonathan Rée
Hospitality, Volume 1 by Jacques Derrida, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, translated by E.S. Burt. Chicago, 267 pp., £35, November, 978 0 226 82801 5 Hospitality, Volume 2 by Jacques Derrida, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, translated by Peggy Kamuf. Chicago, 261 pp., £36, April, 978 0 226 83130 5
James Butler
‘This much evidence, still no charges’
Sophia Goodfriend
Kill Lists
John Kerrigan
England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland by Lorna Hutson. Cambridge, 323 pp., £30, November 2023, 978 1 009 25357 4
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘The Plum Tree’
Helen Pfeifer
The Genius of Their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni and the Lost Enlightenment by S. Frederick Starr. Oxford, 301 pp., £22.99, January, 978 0 19 767555 7
Katherine Harloe
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray. Allen Lane, 517 pp., £30, May, 978 0 241 36057 6
David Runciman
Short Cuts: Just ask Tony
Terry Eagleton
The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present by Fredric Jameson. Verso, 458 pp., £20, October, 978 1 80429 589 2
James Vincent
Horny Robot Baby Voice
Matthew Bevis
Thomas Hardy: Selected Writings edited by Ralph Pite. Oxford, 608 pp., £19.99, February, 978 0 19 890486 1 Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems edited by David Bromwich. Yale, 456 pp., £30, November 2023, 978 0 300 09528 9 Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy and Poetry by Mark Ford. Oxford, 244 pp., £25, July 2023, 978 0 19 288680 4
Natasha Fedorson
At the Royal Academy: Modernism in Ukraine
Clare Bucknell
Peggy: A Novel by Rebecca Godfrey with Leslie Jamison. John Murray, 366 pp., £18.99, August, 978 1 4736 0574 9
Michael Wood
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson. Cape, 191 pp., £14.99, February, 978 1 78733 235 5
Jon Day
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. Viking, 272 pp., £16.99, May, 978 0 241 65230 5
Dani Garavelli
Diary
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