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Vol. 43 No. 8 · 22 April 2021
John Lanchester
Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula by Laleh Khalili. Verso, 368 pp., £20, April 2020, 978 1 78663 481 8
Letters
Lawrence Denholm, Stefan Collini, Sven Neth, Paul O’Brien, Carol Maibach, Stephen Ackroyd, Alexander Verney-Elliott, Evelyn Toynton, Robert Gifford, Perry Anderson
Adam Tooze
Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics and the Fight for a Better Future by Paul Krugman. Norton, 444 pp., £13.99, February, 978 0 393 54132 8
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
Julian Barnes
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal. Chatto, 182 pp., £14.99, April, 978 1 78474 431 1 The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley. Yale, 301 pp., £25, March, 978 0 300 23337 7
Jan-Werner Müller
Short Cuts: Blame Brussels
Lisa Cohen
Patch Work: A Life among Clothes by Claire Wilcox. Bloomsbury, 270 pp., £16.99, November 2020, 978 1 5266 1439 1
Emily Witt
No One Is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood. Bloomsbury, 210 pp., £14.99, February, 978 1 5266 2976 0
Rae Armantrout
Poem: ‘Too Much Information’
Rivka Galchen
The Idea of the Brain by Matthew Cobb. Profile, 470 pp., £12.99, March, 978 1 78125 590 2 The Future of Brain Repair: A Realist’s Guide to Stem Cell Therapy by Jack Price. MIT, 270 pp., £25, April 2020, 978 0 262 04375 5 Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman. Canongate, 316 pp., £20, August 2020, 978 1 83885 096 8
James Romm
The Invention of Medicine by Robin Lane Fox. Allen Lane, 403 pp., £25, September 2020, 978 0 241 27705 8
Irina Dumitrescu
Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650-1100 by Diane Watt. Bloomsbury, 240 pp., £28.99, February, 978 1 350 23972 2
Richard J. Evans
Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after World War Two by Paul Betts. Profile, 536 pp., £25, November 2020, 978 1 78816 109 1
Lili Owen Rowlands
Moi Aussi
Stephen W. Smith
Philanthropic Imperialism
James Meek
Absolute Zero by Artem Chekh, translated by Olena Jennings and Oksana Lutsyshyna. Glagoslav, 154 pp., £17.99, July 2020, 978 1 912894 67 3 The Monastery by Zakhar Prilepin, translated by Nicholas Kotar. Glagoslav, 660 pp., £24.99, July 2020, 978 1 912894 78 9
Martha Barratt
At Camden Arts Centre: ‘The Botanical Mind’
Edmund Gordon
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang. Virago, 336 pp., £8.99, April, 978 0 349 01145 5
Andrea Brady
how to carry water: Selected Poems by Lucille Clifton, edited by Aracelis Girmay. BOA, 256 pp., £19.99, September 2020, 978 1 950774 14 2
Tom Crewe
Diary: Homelooseness
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