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Vol. 38 No. 8 · 21 April 2016
John Lanchester
When Bitcoin Grows Up
Letters
Marina Warner, John Barnie, Carl Gardner; Maurice Naftalin, Fiona Watson, David O’Connor, John Evans, Sheila MacLeod, Christine Shuttleworth, Mark Engel, Felix Jeschke, Elizabeth Roberts, Kevin DiCamillo
Nick Richardson
Short Cuts: Aubergines are no longer merely aubergines
Colin Burrow
Aeneid: Book VI translated by Seamus Heaney. Faber, 53 pp., £14.99, March 2016, 978 0 571 32731 7
Perry Anderson
Crisis in Brazil
Peter Geoghegan
The End of the Scottish Press?
Adam Mars-Jones
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell. Picador, 194 pp., £12.99, April 2016, 978 1 4472 8051 4
Jean Sprackland
Poem: ‘April’
Christopher Turner
Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics by Beatriz Preciado. Zone, 303 pp., £20.95, October 2014, 978 1 935408 48 2 Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny by Holly Madison. Dey Street, 334 pp., £16.99, July 2015, 978 0 06 237210 9
Jenni Quilter
Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter by Cathy Curtis. Oxford, 432 pp., £20.99, April 2015, 978 0 19 939450 0
Michael D. Gordin
Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science by Daniel Todes. Oxford, 855 pp., £25, December 2014, 978 0 19 992519 3
Eleanor Birne
At Tate Modern: Performing for the Camera
Jonathan Steele
Putin in Syria
Jamie McKendrick
Poem: ‘Earscape’
Michael Hofmann
All That Man Is by David Szalay. Cape, 437 pp., £14.99, April 2016, 978 0 224 09976 9
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Anomalisa’
Susan McKay
Diary: Soldier Dolls in Belfast
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