Vol. 45 No. 3 · 2 February 2023

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Vol. 45 No. 3 · 2 February 2023

Jonathan Rée

Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950 by Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger. Chicago, 840 pp., £35, November 2022, 978 0 226 81682 1

Letters

Tim Smedley, Neil Foxlee, Gareth Evans, Julia Brannen, Bruce Johnson, Claire Spencer, Ben Fletcher-Watson, Charles Turner

Michael Wood

At the Movies: Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Andrew O’Hagan

Spare by Prince Harry. Bantam, 416 pp., £28, January, 978 0 85750 479 1

Mary Hannity

The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood and the British Welfare State by Shaul Bar-Haim. Pennsylvania, 352 pp., £60, August 2021, 978 0 8122 5315 3

Maureen N. McLane

HERmione by H.D.. New Directions, 281 pp., £14.99, November 2022, 978 0 8112 2209 9
Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H.D. by Donna Krolik Hollenberg. Michigan, 360 pp., £68, June 2022, 978 0 472 13301 7

Simon Wren-Lewis

Short Cuts: Above Public Opinion

Michael Ledger-Lomas

Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris. Harvard, 560 pp., £34.95, October 2022, 978 0 674 24747 5

Owen Hatherley

In Battersea

Ange Mlinko

The Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks. Knopf, 331 pp., £9.99, February, 978 0 85730 547 3

Colin Kidd

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff. Little, Brown, 421 pp., £30, December 2022, 978 0 316 44111 7

Michael Kulikowski

When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics by Frank L. Holt. Oxford, 336 pp., £25.99, October 2021, 978 0 19 751765 9
Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World edited by Jerome Mairat, Andrew Wilson and Chris Howgego. Oxford, 368 pp., £90, May 2022, 978 0 19 886638 1

James Davidson

At the British Museum: The Phonetic Hieroglyphic Alphabet

Sheila Fitzpatrick

The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey along Europe’s Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips. Granta, 444 pp., £20, October 2022, 978 1 78378 576 6
On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border by Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey. Harvard, 376 pp., £26.95, December 2021, 978 0 674 97948 2

Gonzalo Pozo

I must start completely alone

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘Then the Rain’

Ben Walker

Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman. Sceptre, 304 pp., £20, July 2022, 978 1 4736 1355 3

Rahmane Idrissa

Diary: In Bamako

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