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Vol. 45 No. 9 · 4 May 2023
Letters
Harald E.L. Prins, Sophie Smith, Ruth Valentine, Martin Hayden, Henry Holland, Aaron French, Inigo Kilborn, Killian O’Donnell, Martin Loughlin, Edward Barlow, John Boe
Jeremy Harding
Macron v. Millions
Thomas Jones
On the Sofa: ‘Wild Isles’
Pankaj Mishra
The Big Con
Tom Stevenson
Superstates: Empires of the 21st Century by Alasdair Roberts. Polity, 235 pp., £17.99, December 2022, 978 1 5095 4448 6
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘No You May Not Write about Me’
Jessie Childs
Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588 by Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker. Yale, 718 pp., £30, December 2022, 978 0 300 25986 5
Greg Afinogenov
Russian Populism: A History by Christopher Ely. Bloomsbury, 272 pp., £24.99, February 2022, 978 1 350 09553 3 Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin. Penguin, 320 pp., £9.99, November 2022, 978 0 241 35533 6
Emily LaBarge
At the Hepworth: Hannah Starkey
Sophie Lewis
Essential Labour: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes. Harper Wave, 222 pp., £20, May 2022, 978 0 06 293736 0
Joanna Biggs
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey. Granta, 394 pp., £18.99, April, 978 1 78378 927 6
James Meek
Short Cuts: Voter ID
Michael Wood
Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Hamish Hamilton, 640 pp., £22, March, 978 0 241 56861 3
Daniel Cohen
The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud. Diversion, 295 pp., £15.99, January 2021, 978 1 63576 744 5 Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation by Nick Seaver. Chicago, 203 pp., £16, November 2022, 978 0 226 82297 6
Diane Williams
Story: ‘Zwhip-Zwhip’
Kieran Setiya
What’s the Use of Philosophy? by Philip Kitcher. Oxford, 216 pp., £12.99, January, 978 0 19 765724 9
Gavin Francis
Metamorphosis by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. Cape, 260 pp., £18.99, February, 978 1 78733 125 9 Brainspotting by A.J. Lees. Notting Hill, 135 pp., £14.99, March 2022, 978 1 912559 36 7
Anahid Nersessian
My Album: From Childhood to 1943 by Meret Oppenheim, translated by Lisa Wenger and Martina Corgnati. Scheidegger & Spiess, 324 pp., £42, September 2022, 978 3 03942 093 3 The Loveliest Vowel Empties by Meret Oppenheim, translated by Kathleen Heil. World Poetry Books, 128 pp., £18, February, 978 1 954218 08 6
Patrick McGuinness
Poem: ‘The Cooling Towers of Didcot’
Sam Rose
Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism by Mark Hussey. Bloomsbury, 578 pp., £14.99, February 2022, 978 1 4088 9441 5
Clare Bucknell
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton. Granta, 423 pp., £20, March, 978 1 78378 425 7
Andrew Cockburn
Diary: In Tbilisi
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