Vol. 36 No. 23 · 4 December 2014

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Vol. 36 No. 23 · 4 December 2014

Rivka Galchen

Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch. Princeton, 682 pp., £24.95, June 2013, 978 0 691 14751 2
Kafka: The Decisive Years by Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch. Princeton, 552 pp., £16.25, June 2013, 978 0 691 14741 3

Letters

Izzy Köksal, Chris Purnell, Nick Wellings, John MacAskill, Matthias Tomczak, Ian Roy, James Booth, Brian Boyd, Paula Kuskow, Richard Sellwood, Jeremy Bernstein

Jeremy Harding

Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus, edited by Alice Kaplan, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Harvard, 224 pp., £11.95, November 2014, 978 0 674 41675 8
Camus brûlant by Benjamin Stora and Jean-Baptiste Péretié. Stock, 109 pp., €12.50, September 2013, 978 2 234 07482 8
Meursault, contre-enquête by Kamel Daoud. Actes Sud, 155 pp., €19, May 2014, 978 2 330 03372 9

T.J. Clark

Rembrandt: The Late Works  National Gallery, until 18 January 2015

Nathan Thrall

Rage in Jerusalem

Jacqueline Rose

At the Donmar

Jenny Diski

The Screaming Gynaecologist

John Ashbery

Poem: ‘Heading Out’

Donald MacKenzie

At Cermak

Jenny Turner

Outline by Rachel Cusk. Faber, 249 pp., £16.99, September 2014, 978 0 571 23362 5

Charles Hope

On Saving the Warburg

Christian Lorentzen

Dad & Jr

Owen Bennett-Jones

The Inevitable Caliphate? A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present by Reza Pankhurst. Hurst, 280 pp., £18.99, June 2013, 978 1 84904 251 2

Richard J. Evans

Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor. Allen Lane, 598 pp., £30, November 2014, 978 0 241 00833 1
Germany: Memories of a Nation  British Museum, until 25 January 2015

Alexandra Reza

Short Cuts: Sankara and Mitterrand

James Davidson

The Gods of Olympus: A History by Barbara Graziosi. Profile, 273 pp., £18.99, November 2013, 978 1 84668 321 3

David Wheatley

Midway: Letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Stephen Bann, 1964-69 edited by Stephen Bann. Wilmington Square, 426 pp., £25, May 2014, 978 1 905524 34 1

Theo Tait

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. Sceptre, 595 pp., £20, September 2014, 978 0 340 92160 9

Alexander Clapp

Diary: I was a Greek neo-fascist

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