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Vol. 39 No. 4 · 16 February 2017
David Bromwich
Act One, Scene One
Letters
Peter Connolly, Peter Bailey, Albion Urdank, Edward Burns, Andrew Black, Marina Warner, Colin Brewer
Karen Liebreich
Typing for Goebbels
John Barrell
William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings by Elizabeth Einberg. Yale, 432 pp., £95, November 2016, 978 0 300 22174 9
Rory Stewart
Aleppo Observed: Ottoman Syria through the Eyes of Two Scottish Doctors, Alexander and Patrick Russell by Maurits H. van den Boogert. Arcadian Library, 254 pp., £120, September 2015, 978 0 19 958856 5
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Moonlight’
Francis Gooding
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal. Granta, 340 pp., £14.99, September 2016, 978 1 78378 304 5 The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben, translated by Jane Billinghurst. Greystone, 272 pp., £16.99, September 2016, 978 1 77164 248 4
Hal Foster
Eduardo Paolozzi Whitechapel Gallery, until 18 May 2017
David Trotter
Orwell’s Nose: A Pathological Biography by John Sutherland. Reaktion, 256 pp., £15, August 2016, 978 1 78023 648 3 Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism by Alex Woloch. Harvard, 378 pp., £35.95, January 2016, 978 0 674 28248 3
August Kleinzahler
On Michael O’Brien
Sophie Pinkham
Mayakovsky: A Biography by Bengt Jangfeldt, translated by Harry Watson. Chicago, 616 pp., £26.50, January 2015, 978 0 226 05697 5 Volodya: Selected Works by Vladimir Mayakovsky, edited by Rosy Carrick. Enitharmon, 312 pp., £14.99, November 2015, 978 1 910392 16 4
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: Hemingway the Spy
Deborah Baker
Guapa by Saleem Haddad. Europa Editions, 304 pp., £10.99, October 2016, 978 1 60945 413 5
Michael Hofmann
At the Met: Beckmann in New York
Tash Aw
The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis, translated by Michael Lucey. Harvill Secker, 192 pp., £12.99, February 2017, 978 1 84655 900 6 Histoire de la violence by Edouard Louis. Editions du Seuil, 230 pp., £22, January 2016, 978 2 7578 6481 4
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio. Vintage, 432 pp., £11.99, August 2015, 978 0 307 38745 5
Sidney Blumenthal
A Short History of the Trump Family
Susan Pedersen
On the March
Jenny Turner
Diary: ‘T2 Trainspotting’
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