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Vol. 38 No. 18 · 22 September 2016
David Bromwich
What are we allowed to say?
Letters
Charles Hope, Carla Wartenberg, David Martin, Mazen Labban, Eleni Liarou, Stephen Massil, Cristina Chimisso
Jacqueline Rose
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride. Faber, 313 pp., £16.99, September 2016, 978 0 571 32785 0
Thomas Laqueur
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Bodley Head, 228 pp., £12.99, February 2016, 978 1 84792 367 7
Colin Burrow
On Alice Oswald
Michael Hofmann
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani. Simon and Schuster, 512 pp., £23, May 2016, 978 1 4516 2437 3
Alice Spawls
At the Shops
N.A.M. Rodger
The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945 by Peter Hennessy and James Jinks. Allen Lane, 823 pp., £12.99, June 2016, 978 1 84614 580 3
Tom Crewe
Short Cuts: Ed Balls
Adam Shatz
So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano, translated by Euan Cameron. MacLehose, 160 pp., £8.99, September 2016, 978 0 85705 499 9
Ankur Betageri
Three Poems
Barry Schwabsky
Willem de Kooning Nonstop: Cherchez la femme by Rosalind Krauss. Chicago, 154 pp., £22.50, March 2016, 978 0 226 26744 9
Dmitri Levitin
The Invention of Science: a New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton. Penguin, 784 pp., £12.99, September 2016, 978 0 14 104083 7
John Burnside
Poem: ‘To the Snow Queen’
Stephen Walsh
Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar by Oliver Hilmes, translated by Stewart Spencer. Yale, 353 pp., £25, June 2016, 978 0 300 18293 4
Matthew Bennett
Ed Tech Biz
T.P. Wiseman
Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature by Denis Feeney. Harvard, 382 pp., £25, January 2016, 978 0 674 05523 0
Michael Wood
At the Movies: Victor Erice
John Gallagher
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton. Allen Lane, 358 pp., £20, March 2016, 978 0 241 00402 9
Kristin Surak
The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian. Columbia Global Reports, 166 pp., £10, November 2015, 978 0 9909763 6 3
Ben Mauk
Diary: From Suspected Arson to Misplaced Cigarette
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