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Vol. 37 No. 17 · 10 September 2015
John Lanchester
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. Thorndike, 585 pp., £22, May 2015, 978 1 4104 7875 7 Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Is Shaping Our Future by Ashlee Vance. Virgin, 400 pp., £20, May 2015, 978 0 7535 5562 0
Letters
Sarah White, Cal Winslow, Karl Sabbagh, Scott Ritter, Lee Jones, Patrick Renshaw, Eoin Dillon, Lauren Elkin, Christine Allison, Douglas Jarman, Peter Blayney, John Sibbald
T.J. Clark
Frank Auerbach
Joanna Biggs
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein. Europa, 473 pp., £11.99, September 2015, 978 1 60945 286 5
Gary Indiana
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Masha Gessen. Riverhead, 273 pp., £18.45, April 2015, 978 1 59463 264 8
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art’
Fredric Jameson
Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative by David Wittenberg. Fordham, 288 pp., £18.99, March 2013, 978 0 8232 4997 8
Nicholas Spice
At Tate Modern: Agnes Martin
Jeff Kingston
Short Cuts: Abe’s Blind Spot
Ian Patterson
Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn. Cape, 344 pp., £25, April 2015, 978 0 224 09776 5
Jacqueline Rose
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Doubleday, 320 pp., £12.99, January 2015, 978 0 85752 231 3 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Weidenfeld, 512 pp., £8.99, September 2014, 978 1 78022 822 8
Jenny Diski
My Word-Untangling Machine
Esther Chadwick
At the Courtauld: Jonathan Richardson
John Pemble
John Kemble’s Gibraltar Journal: The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830-31 by Eric Nye. Macmillan, 416 pp., £100, January 2015, 978 1 137 38446 1
Andrew Whitehead
The Modi Effect: Inside Narendra Modi’s Campaign to Transform India by Lance Price. Hodder, 342 pp., £25, March 2015, 978 1 4736 1089 7 2014: The Election that Changed India by Rajdeep Sardesai. Penguin, 372 pp., £16.99, November 2014, 978 0 14 342498 7
Christopher Prendergast
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon edited by Barbara Cassin, translated by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra and Michael Wood. Princeton, 1297 pp., £44.95, February 2014, 978 0 691 13870 1
Robert Hanks
On Putting Things Off
Max Hastings
Diary: Letters from the Front
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