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Vol. 45 No. 23 · 30 November 2023
Letters
John Kelly, Peter Stott, Rose Levinson, David Miller, Peter Hoskins, Anna Stavrianakis, Blaine Stothard, Sam Solecki, Michael Shea, Samrat Prasai, Stephen Schlesinger, Ben Campbell
Clare Bucknell
Byron and the Poetics of Adversity by Jerome McGann. Cambridge, 214 pp., £19.99, December 2022, 978 1 009 23295 1 Reading Byron: Poems – Life – Politics by Bernard Beatty. Liverpool, 266 pp., £90, January, 978 1 80085 462 8 Byron’s ‘Don Juan’: The Liberal Epic of the 19th Century by Richard Cronin. Cambridge, 248 pp., £85, June, 978 1 009 36623 6
Jacqueline Rose
‘You made me do it’
Zain Samir
Hizbullah’s War
Conor Gearty
Short Cuts: War Crimes
Michael Kulikowski
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom. Oneworld, 338 pp., £10.99, October, 978 0 86154 685 5
Helen Pfeifer
‘Wonders and Rarities’: The Marvellous Book that Travelled the World and Mapped the Cosmos by Travis Zadeh. Harvard, 445 pp., £33.95, October, 978 0 674 25845 7
Jonah Goodman
A National Evil
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Before’
Niamh Gallagher
James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist by Liam McNulty. Merlin, 398 pp., £25, December 2022, 978 0 85036 783 6
David Trotter
Every Man for Himself and God against All by Werner Herzog, translated by Michael Hofmann. Bodley Head, 355 pp., £25, October, 978 1 84792 724 8
Francis Gooding
The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin. Orbit, 384 pp., £9.99, October 2023, 978 0 356 51272 3
Julian Bell
At the National Gallery: On Frans Hals
Alex Harvey
Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri. Faber, 144 pp., £8.99, June, 978 0 571 36035 2
Georgie Newson
On the March
Francis Wade
After the Coup
Dinah Birch
‘The Virgin of the Seven Daggers’ and Other Stories by Vernon Lee, edited by Aaron Worth. Oxford, 352 pp., £7.99, September 2022, 978 0 19 883754 1
Patricia Lockwood
Diary: When I Met the Pope
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