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Vol. 44 No. 12 · 23 June 2022
David Trotter
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Penguin, 161 pp., £9.99, October 2020, 978 0 241 45488 6 Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham. Handheld Press, 344 pp., £15.99, May 2021, 978 1 912766 40 6
Letters
Benjamin Letzler, David Killingray, Peter Thomson, Peter Huhne, Tom Wells, Susan Mann, Garry MacKenzie
Jacqueline Rose and Sam Frears
You haven’t got your sister pregnant, have you?
Julian Bell
At the British Museum: ‘The World of Stonehenge’
Deborah Friedell
The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager. Norton, 655 pp., £25, September 2021, 978 0 393 24771 8
Mike Jay
Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity by Jonathan Purkis. Manchester, 301 pp., £20, January, 978 1 5261 6004 1
Thomas Meaney
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi. Penguin, 313 pp., £9.99, June, 978 0 14 199510 6
Rachel Nolan
Operation Car Wash: Brazil’s Institutionalised Crime and the Inside Story of the Biggest Corruption Scandal in History by Jorge Pontes and Márcio Anselmo, translated by Anthony Doyle. Bloomsbury, 191 pp., £20, April, 978 1 350 26561 5
John-Paul Stonard
At the Barbican: ‘Postwar Modern’
Clare Bucknell
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy. Bloomsbury, 311 pp., £14.99, April, 978 1 5266 2332 4
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
Bee Wilson
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything – and Endangered the World by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman. Hurst, 337 pp., £20, May 2021, 978 1 78738 378 4 Oil Palm: A Global History by Jonathan E. Robins. North Carolina, 418 pp., £32.95, July 2021, 978 1 4696 6289 3
James Butler
Short Cuts: Love of the Gardenesque
Fara Dabhoiwala
Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London by Simon Newman. University of London, 260 pp., £12, February, 978 1 912702 93 0
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Fog’
Gavin Francis
The Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O’Sullivan. Picador, 328 pp., £10.99, March, 978 1 5290 1057 2
Richard Shone
Diary: Lydia Lopokova’s Portraits
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