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Vol. 45 No. 16 · 10 August 2023
Letters
Craig Gibson, Paul Haslam, Brendan O’Leary, David Denby, David Saunders, Jane M. Card, Anthony Colman, Mike Gavin, David Black, Gareth Evans, Anna Rayne
Malcolm Bull
Gerhard Richter: Painting after the Subject of History by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. MIT, 661 pp., £40, September 2022, 978 0 262 54353 8
James Butler
Short Cuts: In Suburbia
James Meek
Every Field, Every Yard
Daniel Soar
Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman. And Other Stories, 108 pp., £11.99, February, 978 1 913505 61 5
Francis Gooding
On Richard Mosse
Tom Stevenson
And Then What? Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy by Catherine Ashton. Elliott and Thompson, 256 pp., £20, February, 978 1 78396 634 9
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Barbie’
Thomas Jones
Sidney Reilly: Master Spy by Benny Morris. Yale, 190 pp., £16.99, January, 978 0 300 24826 5
Lucy Wooding
Henry VIII and the Merchants: The World of Stephen Vaughan by Susan Rose. Bloomsbury, 188 pp., £85, January, 978 1 350 12769 2
Randall Kennedy
The Race-Neutral Delusion
Abigail Green
Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions by Maurizio Isabella. Princeton, 685 pp., £35, May, 978 0 691 18170 7
Brian Dillon
At Wiels: Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Seamus Perry
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 480 pp., £16.99, October 2022, 978 0 241 58531 3 Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 320 pp., £14.99, October 2022, 978 0 241 58529 0 A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 336 pp., £14.99, October 2022, 978 0 241 58527 6 Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 304 pp., £14.99, October 2022, 978 0 241 58528 3 Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 928 pp., £18.99, October 2022, 978 0 241 58532 0
Irina Dumitrescu
The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner. Princeton, 320 pp., £20, January, 978 0 691 20601 1 The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith. Hamish Hamilton, 109 pp., £7.99, November 2021, 978 0 241 47196 8 The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks. William Morrow, 541 pp., £9.99, March 2022, 978 0 06 314283 1
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘A History of Western Music: Chapter 57’
Ange Mlinko
Greek Lessons by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won. Hamish Hamilton, 146 pp., £16.99, April, 978 0 241 60027 6
Anne Enright
Diary: Spring Blossom
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