Vol. 42 No. 13 · 2 July 2020

Browse other issues from this year

Cover Artist

Naomi Frears

Ferdinand Mount

Superman Falls to Earth

Letters

David Elstein, Susan Neiman, Jana Cattien, Stuart Williams, Stephen Sedley, Paul Cullen, Allan Stewart-Oaten, Anthony Battersby, Peter Smith, Alan Levitan, Colin Michie, Bridget Fowler, Ferdinand Mount, Patrick O’Connor

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: In the Bunker

James Romm

Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge. Picador, 320 pp., £12.99, May, 978 1 5098 7317 3

James Meek

The Health Transformation Army

Alice Spawls

At the Type Archive

Alison Light

Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps edited by Mary S. Morgan. Thames and Hudson, 288 pp., £49.95, October 2019, 978 0 500 02229 0

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Da 5 Bloods’

Neal Ascherson

Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers and Spies Banded Together in World War Two Europe by Kathy Peiss. Oxford, 296 pp., £22.99, March, 978 0 19 094461 2

Adam Mars-Jones

Weather by Jenny Offill. Granta, 207 pp., £12.99, February, 978 1 78378 476 9

Michael Dobson

Shakespeare’s Englishes: Against Englishness by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton. Cambridge, 245 pp., £75, October 2019, 978 1 108 49373 4

Maureen N. McLane

Poem: ‘Now Is the Cool of the Day’

David Trotter

Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism by Malcolm Turvey. Columbia, 304 pp., £25, December 2019, 978 0 231 19303 0
The Definitive Jacques Tati edited by Alison Castle. Taschen, 1136 pp., £185, June, 978 3 8365 7711 3

Katherine Rundell

Consider the Hare

Amia Srinivasan

What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron. Liveright, 304 pp., £16.99, February 2020, 978 1 63149 604 2

Fiona Benson

Poem: ‘Field Crickets (Gryllus campestris)’

Rahmane Idrissa

Diary: In Mali

Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.

Sign up to our newsletter

For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.

Newsletter Preferences