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Vol. 44 No. 3 · 10 February 2022
Thomas Nagel
The Women Are up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch Revolutionised Ethics by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb. Oxford, 326 pp., £20, November 2021, 978 0 19 754107 4 Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman. Chatto, 398 pp., £25, February, 978 1 78474 328 4
Letters
Jonathan Sumption, Fiona O’Connor, Pete Gubbins, Tony Wood, Hilary Francis, Kristy Trinier, Nico Harvey, Rupert Marlow
Geoff Mann
The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World by William D. Nordhaus. Princeton, 355 pp., £25, May 2021, 978 0 691 21434 4
Rosemary Hill
Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine by Anna Della Subin. Granta, 462 pp., £20, January 2022, 978 1 78378 501 8
Robert Cioffi
Demetrius the Besieger by Pat Wheatley and Charlotte Dunn. Oxford, 496 pp., £100, April 2020, 978 0 19 883604 9
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘On the Last Day’
Musab Younis
Nice Racism by Robin DiAngelo. Allen Lane, 224 pp., £17.99, June 2021, 978 0 241 51935 6 Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad. Quercus, 242 pp., £14.99, January 2020, 978 1 5294 0510 1 Do Better by Rachel Ricketts. Gallery, 383 pp., £16.99, February 2021, 978 1 3985 0345 8 What White People Can Do Next by Emma Dabiri. Penguin, 176 pp., £7.99, April 2021, 978 0 14 199673 8
Jeremy Harding
Tazmamart: Eighteen Years in Morocco’s Secret Prison by Aziz BineBine, translated by Lulu Norman. Haus, £9.99, March 2021, 978 1 913368 13 5
Francis FitzGibbon
Short Cuts: Locking On
Barbara Newman
Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book by Elaine Treharne. Oxford, 248 pp., £30, October 2021, 978 0 19 284381 4 Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley. Riverrun, 372 pp., £25, October 2021, 978 1 5294 0093 9 The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books by Elina Gertsman. Penn State, 232 pp., £99.95, June 2021, 978 0 271 08784 9
Jonathan Lethem
My Year of Reading Lemmishly
Paul Taylor
Bad Judgment
Imaobong Umoren
African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele. Hurst, 291 pp., £20, October 2020, 978 1 78738 191 9
Francis Gooding
At the British Museum: ‘Peru: A Journey in Time’
Julia Laite
Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America by Susan L. Carruthers. Cambridge, 327 pp., £25, 978 1 108 83077 5
Emily Berry
Poem: ‘(Light)’
Adam Thirlwell
Mona by Pola Oloixarac, translated by Adam Morris. Serpent’s Tail, 192 pp., £12.99, February, 978 1 78816 988 2
Namara Smith
Breathe by Joyce Carol Oates. Fourth Estate, 365 pp., £16.99, August 2021, 978 0 00 849088 1
Joe Dunthorne
Diary: Real Me and Fake Me
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