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Vol. 38 No. 6 · 17 March 2016
Letters
John Lanchester, Rachel Elizabeth Fraser, Tony Sharpe, Carl Gardner, Philip Richmond, Barbara Demeneix, Peter Lomas, David Packham, Vaughan Pilikian, Duncan Hunter, John Matthias, Judith Nelson, Douglas Buchanan, John Lahr
Hilary Mantel
Charles Brandon: Henry VIII’s Closest Friend by Steven Gunn. Amberley, 304 pp., £20, October 2015, 978 1 4456 4184 3
John Ashbery
Poem: ‘Die Meistersinger’
Jeremy Harding
Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. Hurst, 291 pp., £25, March 2015, 978 1 84904 284 0 A Short History of Modern Angola by David Birmingham. Hurst, 256 pp., £17.99, December 2015, 978 1 84904 519 3 Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa by Piero Gleijeses. North Carolina, 655 pp., £27.95, February 2016, 978 1 4696 0968 3 A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn. Harvill, 245 pp., £14.99, June 2015, 978 1 84655 847 4 In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre by Lara Pawson. I.B. Tauris, 271 pp., £20, April 2014, 978 1 78076 905 9 Cuito Cuanavale: Frontline Accounts by Soviet Soldiers by G. Shubin, I. Zhdarkin et al, translated by Tamara Reilly. Jacana, 222 pp., £12.95, May 2014, 978 1 4314 0963 1
Mark Ford
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate. William Collins, 662 pp., £30, October 2015, 978 0 00 811822 8
Jackson Lears
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro. Bodley Head, 1246 pp., £35, July 2015, 978 1 84792 364 6
David Bromwich
Short Cuts: Stirrers Up of Strife
James Sheehan
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf. John Murray, 473 pp., £25, October 2015, 978 1 84854 898 5
Jonathan Gil Harris
The Island Princess by John Fletcher, edited by Clare McManus. Arden, 338 pp., £16.99, December 2012, 978 1 904271 53 6
Frederick Wilmot-Smith
Blame Robert Maxwell
Richard J. Evans
Go-Betweens for Hitler by Karina Urbach. Oxford, 389 pp., £20, July 2015, 978 0 19 870366 2
Rosemary Hill
At Sotheby’s: Debo’s Bibelots
Alison Light
A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt edited by Simon Garfield. Canongate, 736 pp., £12.99, April 2016, 978 1 78211 572 4
Julian Bell
At the National Gallery: Delacroix
Adam Mars-Jones
Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta. Scribner, 278 pp., £17.95, March 2016, 978 1 5011 2272 9
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Hail, Caesar!’
Ben Ehrenreich
Diary: At the Calais Jungle
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