Vol. 45 No. 13 · 29 June 2023

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Cover Artist

Anne Rothenstein

Amia Srinivasan

Cancelled

Letters

Adam Czerniawski, Erin Maglaque, Ian Leonard, Alexander Fanta, Philip Kitcher, Jeremy Hawthorn, Joseph Hearn, David Hammond, Russell L. Riley, David Cleary, Glenn Branch, David Zeitlyn

Fraser MacDonald

Short Cuts: What does a degree mean?

Terry Eagleton

Marx’s Literary Style by Ludovico Silva, translated by Paco Brito Núñez. Verso, 104 pp., £14.99, January, 978 1 83976 553 7

Carl Phillips

Poem: ‘Two Poems’

Owen Hatherley

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman. Fitzcarraldo, 185 pp., £12.99, April, 978 1 80427 042 4

Rosemary Hill

Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward by Oliver Soden. Weidenfeld, 634 pp., £30, March 2023, 978 1 4746 1280 7

Brigid von Preussen

At the Queen’s Gallery: ‘Dressing the Georgians’

David Trotter

Two Thousand Million Man-Power by Gertrude Trevelyan. Boiler House Press, 297 pp., £14.99, November 2022, 978 1 913861 85 8

Tom Stammers

The Artist’s Studio: A Cultural History by James Hall. Thames and Hudson, 345 pp., £30, November 2022, 978 0 500 52171 7

Joanne O’Leary

Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan. Daunt, 167 pp., £9.99, January, 978 1 914198 25 0

Adam Mars-Jones

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor. Cape, 303 pp., £18.99, June, 978 1 78733 443 4

Susan Pedersen

The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations and the Fight to End Empire by Kal Raustiala. Oxford, 661 pp., £26.99, March, 978 0 19 760223 2

Jonathan Sawday

Fill in the Blanks

Alexander Bevilacqua

Knowledge Lost: A New View of Early Modern Intellectual History by Martin Mulsow, translated by H.C. Erik Midelfort. Princeton, 434 pp., £35, January, 978 0 691 20865 7

Diane Williams

Two Stories

Michael Hofmann

The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovsky, translated by Douglas Smith. Vintage, 779 pp., £14.99, March, 978 1 78487 309 7

Matt Foot

Diary: Children of the Spied-On

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