Vol. 36 No. 3 · 6 February 2014

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Vol. 36 No. 3 · 6 February 2014

Jenny Diski

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times by Barbara Taylor. Hamish Hamilton, 296 pp., £18.99, February 2014, 978 0 241 14509 8

Letters

George Pegler, Mat Pires, Martin Brayne, Chris Walker, Paul Dawson, Van Gosse, Stephen Ellis, Eoin Dillon, Alan Bennett, Margrit Windlin, Sean Paul Kelley, Norbert Hirschhorn, Geoffrey Taunton

Michael Neill

Shakespeare in Company by Bart van Es. Oxford, 357 pp., £25, February 2013, 978 0 19 956931 1

Ferdinand Mount

Memoirs of Walter Bagehot by Frank Prochaska. Yale, 207 pp., £18.99, August 2013, 978 0 300 19554 5

Richard Lloyd Parry

Ghosts of the Tsunami

Jeremy Harding

Short Cuts: ‘Inside the Dream Palace’

Eleanor Birne

At Pallant House: Pauline Boty

Christopher Turner

Building Seagram by Phyllis Lambert. Yale, 306 pp., £45, January 2013, 978 0 300 16767 2
Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography by Franz Schulze and Edward Windhorst. Chicago, 493 pp., £25, April 2013, 978 0 226 15145 8

Andrew O’Hagan

Becoming a Londoner: A Diary by David Plante. Bloomsbury, 534 pp., £20, September 2013, 978 1 4088 3975 1
The Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy edited by Katherine Bucknell. Chatto, 481 pp., £25, September 2013, 978 0 7011 8678 4

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘12 Years a Slave’

Jonathan Rée

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: His Life, Works and Thought by H.B. Nisbet. Oxford, 734 pp., £85, September 2013, 978 0 19 967947 8

David Kaiser

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin. Allen Lane, 319 pp., £20, April 2013, 978 1 84614 299 4

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Forgery and Counter-Forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics by Bart Ehrman. Oxford, 628 pp., £27.50, January 2013, 978 0 19 992803 3

Tessa Hadley

All Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Mantle, 573 pp., £18.99, November 2013, 978 0 230 74307 6

John Ashbery

Two Poems

Thomas Jones

The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy by Roger Luckhurst. Oxford, 321 pp., £18.99, October 2012, 978 0 19 969871 4

Dan Hancox

Diary: In Asturias

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