Vol. 37 No. 4 · 19 February 2015

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Anne Rothenstein

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Vol. 37 No. 4 · 19 February 2015

Tom Stevenson

Sisi’s Way

Letters

James Fox, James Grainger, Hugh Brogan, Carl Thompson, Doris Blanes, Michael Hofmann, Brian Lee, Adam Crick, Anne Summers, Matthew Cobb, Ray Rumsby, Norman Poser, John Lawton, Alexander Clapp, Dennis Abey, Jock Lawrie

Simon Wren-Lewis

The Austerity Con

Julian Stallabrass

At Tate Modern: Conflict, Time, Photography

Stefan Collini

Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir, 1935-75 by David Lodge. Harvill Secker, 488 pp., £25, January 2015, 978 1 84655 950 1
Lives in Writing: Essays by David Lodge. Vintage, 262 pp., £10.99, January 2015, 978 0 09 958776 7

Tony Harrison

Poem: ‘Polygons’

Peter Godfrey-Smith

A Rough Ride to the Future by James Lovelock. Allen Lane, 184 pp., £16.99, April 2014, 978 0 241 00476 0

Conor Gearty

Beware the Extremists

Matthew Bevis

The Letters of Robert Frost, Vol. 1: 1886-1920 edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson and Robert Faggen. Harvard, 811 pp., £33.95, March 2014, 978 0 674 05760 9

Andrew O’Hagan

Short Cuts: Meeting the Royals

Elaine Blair

10:04 by Ben Lerner. Granta, 244 pp., £14.99, January 2015, 978 1 84708 891 8

Alice Spawls

Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of ‘Lark Rise to Candleford’ by Richard Mabey. Allen Lane, 208 pp., £9.99, March 2015, 978 0 14 104481 1

Joe Dunthorne

Two Poems

Dinah Birch

Common People: The History of an English Family by Alison Light. Penguin, 322 pp., £20, October 2014, 978 1 905490 38 7

Michael Newton

Pola Negri: Hollywood’s First Femme Fatale by Mariusz Kotowski. Kentucky, 322 pp., £29.95, April 2014, 978 0 8131 4488 7

Leland de la Durantaye

Justine et autres romans by D.A.F. de Sade, edited by Michel Delon and Jean Deprun. Gallimard, 1152 pp., €60, October 2014, 978 2 07 014669 7

Michael Hofmann

Poem: ‘Derrick’

Peter Pomerantsev

Diary: Iammmmyookkraaanian

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