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Vol. 44 No. 4 · 24 February 2022
William Davies
How many words does it take to make a mistake?
Letters
Conor Gearty, Roland Salmon, Paul Taylor, Don Lock, Rita Felski, Paul Flewers
Amber Medland
On Caleb Femi
Neal Ascherson
Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman by Susanne Schattenberg, translated by John Heath. I.B. Tauris, 484 pp., £30, November 2021, 978 1 83860 638 1
David Renton
Short Cuts: Vanity and Cupidity
Laleh Khalili
Risk: A User’s Guide by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico. Penguin, 343 pp., £20, October 2021, 978 0 241 48192 9
Lavinia Greenlaw
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike. Faber, 512 pp., £20, July 2021, 978 0 571 35001 8
Rae Armantrout
Poem: ‘Fortune’
Deborah Friedell
At the British Library: Elizabeth and Mary
David Trotter
Garbo by Robert Gottlieb. Farrar, Straus, 438 pp., £32, December 2021, 978 0 374 29835 7
Seamus Perry
The Magician by Colm Tóibín. Viking, 438 pp., £18.99, September 2021, 978 0 241 00461 6
Jo-Ann Wallace
On Typing
Rahmane Idrissa
Coup-Contrecoup
Tony Wood
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan Villoro, translated by Alfred MacAdam. Pantheon, 346 pp., £27, March 2021, 978 1 5247 4888 3 Battles in the Desert by José Emilio Pacheco, translated by Katherine Silver. New Directions, 54 pp., £10, June 2021, 978 0 8112 3095 7
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Nightmare Alley’
Tom Shippey
The Galloway Hoard: Viking-Age Treasure by Martin Goldberg and Mary Davis. National Museums Scotland, 128 pp., £9.99, February 2021, 978 1 910682 40 1
Tom Stevenson
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War by Fred Kaplan. Simon and Schuster, 384 pp., £15, April 2021, 978 1 9821 0729 1 The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age by Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press. Cornell, 180 pp., £23.99, June 2020, 978 1 5017 4929 2
Emma Gattey
At the Box: Songlines
Arun Kapil
Fanning the Flames
Paul Theroux
Diary: Out of Sir Vidia’s Shadow
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