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Vol. 38 No. 16 · 11 August 2016
Eliot Weinberger
‘It was everything’
Letters
Oliver Miles, Keith Bilton, Tom Pye, Peter Hands, Michael Hill, Nicholas Stargardt, Anne Summers, Michael Neill, Peter Archard
Mark Ford
The Poems of T.S. Eliot: Volume I: Collected & Uncollected Poems edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. Faber, 1311 pp., £40, November 2015, 978 0 571 23870 5 The Poems of T.S. Eliot: Volume II: Practical Cats & Further Verses edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. Faber, 667 pp., £40, November 2015, 978 0 571 23371 7
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Subjective Correlative
Tom Crewe
We Are Many
David Morley
Two Poems
Jon Day
Short Cuts: The Journey of the Eel
Colin Burrow
‘The Sea, the Sea’; ‘A Severed Head’ by Iris Murdoch. Everyman, 680 pp., £14.99, March 2016, 978 1 84159 370 8
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Autobiographies: ‘A Small Boy and Others’; ‘Notes of a Son and Brother’; ‘The Middle Years’ and Other Writings by Henry James, edited by Philip Horne. Library of America, 848 pp., £26.99, January 2016, 978 1 59853 471 9
Ian Patterson
At the Fitzwilliam: A tidying-up and a sorting-out
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Centre of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe – and Started the Protestant Reformation by Andrew Pettegree. Penguin, 383 pp., £21.99, October 2015, 978 1 59420 496 8 Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper. Bodley Head, 577 pp., £30, June 2016, 978 1 84792 004 1 Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer by Scott H. Hendrix. Yale, 341 pp., £25, October 2015, 978 0 300 16669 9
Nick Richardson
Beast by Paul Kingsnorth. Faber, 164 pp., £12.99, July 2016, 978 0 571 32207 7
Paul Taylor
The Concept of ‘Cat Face’
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Muriel’
Katherine Rundell
Gabriel-Ernest and Other Tales by Saki and Quentin Blake. Alma Classics, 156 pp., £6.99, October 2015, 978 1 84749 592 1
Robert Baird
Hystopia by David Means. Faber, 352 pp., £16.99, May 2016, 978 0 571 33011 9
Brian Dillon
At the Foundling Museum: Found
Yoram Gorlizki
On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick. Princeton, 384 pp., £24.95, September 2015, 978 0 691 14533 4
Paul Farley
Poem: ‘The Keeper of Red Carpets’
Anne Diebel
Robert Lowell in Love by Jeffrey Meyers. Massachusetts, 288 pp., £36.50, December 2015, 978 1 62534 186 0
Christian Lorentzen
Diary: The Democratic Convention
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