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Vol. 44 No. 22 · 17 November 2022
Letters
Claire Spencer, Victor Reus, Jim Carmichael, Tim Barker, Gareth Evans, James Parker, Andrew Lewis, J. Cohn
David Runciman
A Mess of Their Own Making
David Goldblatt
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth by John McManus. Icon, 400 pp., £10.99, July, 978 1 78578 821 5 Qatar and the 2022 Fifa World Cup: Politics, Controversy, Change by Paul Michael Brannagan and Danyel Reiche. Palgrave, 199 pp., £34.99, March, 978 3 030 96821 2
Martha Barratt
At the Barbican: Carolee Schneemann
Rosemary Hill
Menu Design in Europe: A Visual and Culinary History of Graphic Styles and Design, 1800-2000 edited by Jim Heimann. Taschen, 448 pp., £50, July, 978 3 8365 7873 8
Anthony Grafton
The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms that Made Us Who We Are by David M. Henkin. Yale, 264 pp., £20, January, 978 0 300 25732 8
Patricia Lockwood
Liberation Day by George Saunders. Bloomsbury, 238 pp., £18.99, October 2022, 978 1 5266 2495 6 A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders. Bloomsbury, 432 pp., £10.99, April 2022, 978 1 5266 2424 6
Ailbhe Darcy
Poem: ‘Grand Guignol’
Michael Wood
The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka edited by Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch. Princeton, 230 pp., £20, July 2022, 978 0 691 20592 2
Tom Stevenson
The Revolutionary Decade
Tormod Johansen
Short Cuts: Lawless v. Ireland
Liam Shaw
Life on the Rocks by Juli Berwald. Riverhead, 336 pp., £23.99, April, 978 0 593 08730 5
Joanne O’Leary
A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis. Norton, 400 pp., £25, January, 978 1 324 00552 0 The Uncollected Essays by Elizabeth Hardwick, edited by Alex Andriesse. NYRB, 304 pp., £15.99, May, 978 1 68137 623 3
T.J. Clark
On Mike Davis
Clare Jackson
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris. Hutchinson Heinemann, 480 pp., £22, September, 978 1 5291 5175 6
Madeleine Schwartz
Diary: Teaching in the Banlieue
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