Vol. 41 No. 5 · 7 March 2019

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Cover Artist

Naomi Frears

Adam Phillips

Down Girl: the Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne. Penguin, 338 pp., £9.99, March 2019, 978 0 14 199072 9

Letters

Christopher Lord, Angus Doulton, Martin Westlake, Gerard Rowe, Mike Lofgren, Malcolm Deas, Frank Tangherlini

David Bromwich

House-Cleaning

Tom Crewe

Short Cuts: The Independent Group

Christopher Clark

Why should we think about the Revolutions of 1848 now?

David Harsent

Poem: ‘From Loss

Laura Beers

Mixing It: Diversity in World War Two Britain by Wendy Webster. Oxford, 336 pp., £26, March 2018, 978 0 19 873576 2
Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain by Jordanna Bailkin. Oxford, 304 pp., £30, July 2018, 978 0 19 881421 4

Ian Jack

The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed 1600-1900 by T.M. Devine. Allen Lane, 464 pp., £25, October 2018, 978 0 241 30410 5

Donald MacKenzie

Just how fast?

Anne Carson

Poem: ‘First Choral Ode from Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (a translation of Euripides’ Helen)’

David Thomson

Who Is Michael Ovitz? by Michael Ovitz. W.H. Allen, 372 pp., £20, September 2018, 978 0 7535 5336 7

Paul Keegan

At the Whitney: Andy Warhol

Colin Burrow

Poems of Sextus Propertius edited and translated by Patrick Worsnip. Carcanet, 253 pp., £12.99, September 2018, 978 1 78410 651 5

Alex de Waal

Monuments to Famine

Matthew Bevis

The Complete Poems by A.R. Ammons. Norton, two vols, 2133 pp., £74, December 2017, 978 0 393 25489 1

Adam Mars-Jones

Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. Serpent’s Tail, 245 pp., £8.99, January 2019, 978 1 78125 953 5

Diana Stone

Diary: Nightmares in Harare

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