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Vol. 37 No. 4 · 19 February 2015
Tom Stevenson
Sisi’s Way
Letters
James Fox, James Grainger, Hugh Brogan, Carl Thompson, Doris Blanes, Michael Hofmann, Brian Lee, Adam Crick, Anne Summers, Matthew Cobb, Ray Rumsby, Norman Poser, John Lawton, Alexander Clapp, Dennis Abey, Jock Lawrie
Simon Wren-Lewis
The Austerity Con
Julian Stallabrass
At Tate Modern: Conflict, Time, Photography
Stefan Collini
Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir, 1935-75 by David Lodge. Harvill Secker, 488 pp., £25, January 2015, 978 1 84655 950 1 Lives in Writing: Essays by David Lodge. Vintage, 262 pp., £10.99, January 2015, 978 0 09 958776 7
Tony Harrison
Poem: ‘Polygons’
Peter Godfrey-Smith
A Rough Ride to the Future by James Lovelock. Allen Lane, 184 pp., £16.99, April 2014, 978 0 241 00476 0
Conor Gearty
Beware the Extremists
Matthew Bevis
The Letters of Robert Frost, Vol. 1: 1886-1920 edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson and Robert Faggen. Harvard, 811 pp., £33.95, March 2014, 978 0 674 05760 9
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: Meeting the Royals
Elaine Blair
10:04 by Ben Lerner. Granta, 244 pp., £14.99, January 2015, 978 1 84708 891 8
Alice Spawls
Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of ‘Lark Rise to Candleford’ by Richard Mabey. Allen Lane, 208 pp., £9.99, March 2015, 978 0 14 104481 1
Joe Dunthorne
Two Poems
Dinah Birch
Common People: The History of an English Family by Alison Light. Penguin, 322 pp., £20, October 2014, 978 1 905490 38 7
Michael Newton
Pola Negri: Hollywood’s First Femme Fatale by Mariusz Kotowski. Kentucky, 322 pp., £29.95, April 2014, 978 0 8131 4488 7
Leland de la Durantaye
Justine et autres romans by D.A.F. de Sade, edited by Michel Delon and Jean Deprun. Gallimard, 1152 pp., €60, October 2014, 978 2 07 014669 7
Michael Hofmann
Poem: ‘Derrick’
Peter Pomerantsev
Diary: Iammmmyookkraaanian
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