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Vol. 44 No. 21 · 3 November 2022
Letters
Kevin Mayes, Frankie Green, Gary Craig, David Ross, Paul Franczak, Richard Hewlings, David Lupher, Johan Enegren, Nick Wray, Benjamin Sims
Christopher Clark
Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848 by Jonathan Beecher. Cambridge, 474 pp., £29.99, April 2021, 978 1 108 84253 2
James Meek
Short Cuts: Droning Things
Jenny Turner
Selected Writings on Marxism by Stuart Hall, edited by Gregor McLennan. Duke, 380 pp., £25.99, April 2021, 978 1 4780 0034 1 Selected Writings on Race and Difference by Stuart Hall, edited by Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Duke, 472 pp., £27.99, April 2021, 978 1 4780 1166 8
Chloe Aridjis
At the Swedenborg: Magic Lanterns
Owen Hatherley
Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain by Richard Vinen. Allen Lane, 545 pp., £25, September 2022, 978 0 241 45453 4
Fiona Benson
Poem: ‘Oracle [Oleander]’
Jan-Werner Müller
United Europe?
Thomas Powers
Let Me Tell You What I Mean: A New Collection of Essays by Joan Didion. Fourth Estate, 149 pp., £8.99, January 2022, 978 0 00 845178 3
Tom Shippey
Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe, an Investigation by Ronald Hutton. Yale, 245 pp., £18.99, May, 978 0 300 26101 1
Katherine Rundell
Consider the Hummingbird
Chloe Nahum-Claudel
Of Humans, Pigs and Souls: An Essay on the Yagwoia ‘Womba’ Complex by Jadran Mimica. Hau, 160 pp., £16, February 2021, 978 1 912808 31 1 Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu by Tom Bratrud. Berghahn, 213 pp., £89, April, 978 1 80073 464 7
Catriona Seth
Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, translated by Robert Savage. Princeton, 1045 pp., £35, March, 978 0 691 17906 3
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Decision to Leave’
Bridget Alsdorf
Florine Stettheimer: A Biography by Barbara Bloemink. Hirmer, 435 pp., £25, January, 978 3 7774 3834 4
Ange Mlinko
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O’Hara. Grove, 52 pp., £12.99, March, 978 1 61185 656 9
Tony Wood
On Chile
Leo Robson
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett. Influx, 271 pp., £9.99, September 2021, 978 1 910312 99 5 Erasure by Percival Everett. Faber, 294 pp., £8.99, August 2021, 978 0 571 37089 4 The Trees by Percival Everett. Influx, 334 pp., £9.99, March 2022, 978 1 914391 17 0
Paul Taylor
Academic Benefits
Azadeh Moaveni
Diary: Two Weeks in Tehran
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