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Vol. 37 No. 24 · 17 December 2015
Letters
Bob Osborne, Bernard Besserglik, James Grainger, Christopher Lord, Colin Matthews, Roy Bland, Dhananjay Jagannathan, Shahaan Ansari, Edmund Fawcett, Kiri Paramore, Charles Coutinho, Thomas Williams
James Meek
After the Vote
Jonathan Shaw
Bombing Our Way to Vienna
Andrew O’Hagan
A House in St John’s Wood: In Search of My Parents by Matthew Spender. William Collins, 448 pp., £25, August 2015, 978 0 00 813206 4
Anne Enright
Antigone in Galway
Julian Barnes
Splendeurs et misères: Images de la prostitution 1850-1910 Musée d’Orsay, until 17 January 2016Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Grand Palais, until 11 January 2016Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9 February 2016 to 15 May 2016
Iain Sinclair
I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955–97 edited by Bill Morgan. City Lights, 284 pp., £11.83, July 2015, 978 0 87286 678 2 Writing across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, edited by Giada Diano and Matthew Gleeson. Liveright, 464 pp., £22.99, October 2015, 978 1 63149 001 9
Daniel Trilling
Short Cuts: On the Night Bus to Idomeni
Jonathan Rée
Hume: An Intellectual Biography by James Harris. Cambridge, 621 pp., £35, September 2015, 978 0 521 83725 5
Stephen Sedley
Professional Misconduct
Gaby Wood
At the Imperial War Museum: Lee Miller
Dan Hancox
Politics in a Time of Crisis: Podemos and the Future of a Democratic Europe by Pablo Iglesias, translated by Lorna Scott Fox. Verso, 237 pp., £10.99, November 2015, 978 1 78478 335 8
Jenny Diski
A Reparation of Her Choosing
Charles Bernstein
Poem: ‘S’i’ fosse’
Ferdinand Mount
Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears by Thomas Dixon. Oxford, 438 pp., £25, September 2015, 978 0 19 967605 7
Nick Richardson
The Last English Poachers by Bob Tovey and Brian Tovey, with John McDonald. Simon & Schuster, 288 pp., £16.99, May 2015, 978 1 4711 3567 5
Simon Carnell
Poem: ‘A Postcard from Chimalistac’
Jenny Turner
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus. Tuskar Rock, 261 pp., £12.99, November 2015, 978 1 78125 647 3
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Hunger Games’
Michael Neill
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro. Faber, 423 pp., £20, October 2015, 978 0 571 23578 0
Amit Chaudhuri
Diary: Modi’s Hinduism
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