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Vol. 36 No. 19 · 9 October 2014
Letters
Oliver Miles, Andrew Wilton, Richard Howell, Bob Jope, Mat Snow, J.P. Smith, Mark Berry, Henning Lahmann
James Meek
In Farageland
Jenny Diski
What to call her?
Laura Jacobs
Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer by Elizabeth Kendall. Oxford, 288 pp., £22.99, August 2013, 978 0 19 995934 1
Nick Richardson
At the V&A 1: Disobedient Objects
After the Referendum
Kathleen Jamie, Tariq Ali, Neal Ascherson, T.J. Clark, Robert Crawford, Tom Devine, Gavin Francis, Peter Geoghegan, Colin Kidd, Ross McKibbin, James Meek, David Runciman, Jenny Turner
Rosemary Hill
At the V&A 2: Wedding Dresses, 1775-2014
Tim Parks
A Man’s Head by Georges Simenon, translated by David Coward. Penguin, 169 pp., £6.99, July 2014, 978 0 14 139351 3 A Crime in Holland by Georges Simenon, translated by Siân Reynolds. Penguin, 160 pp., £6.99, May 2014, 978 0 14 139349 0
David Trotter
The Next War in the Air: Britain’s Fear of the Bomber, 1908-41 by Brett Holman. Ashgate, 290 pp., £70, June 2014, 978 1 4094 4733 7
Nathan Thrall
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit. Scribe, 447 pp., £20, February 2014, 978 1 922247 54 4
Omar Robert Hamilton
On Hunger Strike
Caroline Phillips
Short Cuts: In Symi
August Kleinzahler
E.E. Cummings: The Complete Poems, 1904-62 edited by George James Firmage. Liveright, 1102 pp., £36, September 2013, 978 0 87140 710 8 E.E. Cummings: A Life by Susan Cheever. Pantheon, 209 pp., £16, February 2014, 978 0 307 37997 9
Greg Grandin
Scramble for the Amazon and the ‘Lost Paradise’ of Euclides da Cunha by Susanna Hecht. Chicago, 612 pp., £31.50, April 2013, 978 0 226 32281 0
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Deep Water Trawling’
Jonathan Rosen
The Double-Crested Cormorant: Plight of a Feathered Pariah by Linda Wires. Yale, 349 pp., £20, June 2014, 978 0 300 18711 3
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Diary: Karl Miller Remembered
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