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Vol. 43 No. 12 · 17 June 2021
Ian Penman
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown. Fourth Estate, 642 pp., £9.99, March, 978 0 00 834003 2 The Beatles and Sixties Britain by Marcus Collins. Cambridge, 382 pp., £90, March 2020, 978 1 108 47724 6 The Beatles in Context edited by Kenneth Womack. Cambridge, 372 pp., £74.99, January 2020, 978 1 108 41911 6
Letters
Susie Thomas, Julia Prewitt Brown, Francis Reavley, Gregory Klyve, Kieran Setiya, James Russell, Benjamin Midler, Roger Berger, Norman Dombey, Brian Reffin Smith
Marianne Boruch
Poem: ‘Dear Thus and So. Dear Eventually’
Tessa Hadley
The True History of the First Mrs Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson. NYRB, 242 pp., £14.99, July 2020, 978 1 68137 445 1
Tariq Ali
Muhammad by Maxime Rodinson, translated by Anne Carter. NYRB, 373 pp., £14.99, March, 978 1 68137 492 5
William Davies
Short Cuts: Friend or Threat
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Each rock has two names
Francesca Wade
At the Whitechapel: Eileen Agar
James Romm
Rome Is Burning by Anthony Barrett. Princeton, 447 pp., £25, December 2020, 978 0 691 17231 6
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Mandabi’
Alex de Waal
Steal, Burn, Rape, Kill
Niamh Gallagher
The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend. Allen Lane, 368 pp., £20, April, 978 0 241 30086 2
Lucie Elven
I Used to Be Charming by Eve Babitz. NYRB, 448 pp., £14.99, January 2020, 978 1 68137 379 9
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Cage’
Stuart Jeffries
Correspondence 1923-66: Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer edited by Wolfgang Schopf, translated by Susan Reynolds and Michael Winkler. Polity, 537 pp., £35, November 2020, 978 0 7456 4923 8 Kracauer: A Biography by Jörg Später, translated by Daniel Steuer. Polity, 584 pp., £35, September 2020, 978 1 5095 3301 5
Colin Burrow
On Fiona Benson
Adam Mars-Jones
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford. Faber, 336 pp., £16.99, February, 978 0 571 33648 7
Edmund Gordon
Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor. Fourth Estate, 288 pp., £14.99, April, 978 0 00 820490 7
Freddie Mason
At the Hayward: Matthew Barney
Sharon Marcus
Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion. Cambridge, 350 pp., £17.99, March 2020, 978 1 108 48380 3 Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from 19th-Century France by Rachel Mesch. Stanford, 344 pp., £24.99, May 2020, 978 1 5036 0673 9
Patrick McGuinness
Diary: Oxford by Train
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