Vol. 45 No. 4 · 16 February 2023

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Vol. 45 No. 4 · 16 February 2023

James Wolcott

Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America’s Mayor by Andrew Kirtzman. Simon and Schuster, 458 pp., £20, September 2022, 978 1 9821 5329 8

Letters

Sheona York, Colin Brewer, Ronald Brown, David Elstein, Jonathan Sawday, Gilbert O’Brien, Peter Rose, Matthew Corner, Stephen Bayley

Bee Wilson

Paul Newman: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman, edited by David Rosenthal. Century, 320 pp., £25, October 2022, 978 1 5291 9706 8
The Last Movie Stars directed by Ethan Hawke. HBO/CNN

Izzy Finkel

Short Cuts: In the Inflation Basket

Laleh Khalili

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy by Philippe Sands. Weidenfeld, 208 pp., £16.99, August 2022, 978 1 4746 1812 0

Neal Ascherson

On Tom Nairn

Rosemary Hill

Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse by Veronica della Dora. Reaktion, 280 pp., £25, March 2022, 978 1 78914 549 6

Emma Smith

Not at Home

Adam Shatz

Beyond Borders

Joe Moran

Gen Z and Me

Gill Partington

Literature’s Elsewheres: The Necessity of Radical Literary Practices by Annette Gilbert. MIT, 419 pp., £30, April 2022, 978 0 262 54341 5
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origin of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker. Chicago, 380 pp., £32, July 2022, 978 0 226 81581 7

Adam Mars-Jones

The Furrows by Namwali Serpell. Hogarth, 270 pp., £16.99, August 2022, 978 1 78109 084 8

Thomas Meaney

At the Staatsgalerie: George Grosz

Terry Eagleton

Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative by Peter Brooks. NYRB, 173 pp., £13.99, October 2022, 978 1 68137 663 9

Natalie Shapero

Two Poems

Julian Bell

Cezanne  Tate Modern, until 12 March 2023

Ian Pace

The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf: Life, Letters, Lieder by Richard Stokes. Faber, 602 pp., £30, September 2021, 978 0 571 36069 7

Patricia Lockwood

Diary: Saving a Life

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