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Vol. 39 No. 8 · 20 April 2017
James Meek
Somerdale to Skarbimierz
Letters
Victoria Coulson, Ben Carver, Jane Salvage, Alex Bellamy, Anthony Paul, Ruth Maclennan, Giacinto Palmieri, Blaine Stothard, Peter D. Smith, Peter Baker, Arja Kajermo, Bernard Danson, Malcolm Vale
Jeremy Harding
Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the US-Mexico Boundary by Ronald Rael. California, 184 pp., £24.95, May 2017, 978 0 520 28394 7
David Runciman
Short Cuts: Tony and Jeremy
Michael Wood
Fritz Lang and the Life of Crime
Peter Green
Democracy’s Slaves: A Political History of Ancient Greece by Paulin Ismard, translated by Jane Marie Todd. Harvard, 188 pp., £25.95, January 2017, 978 0 674 66007 6
Tom Crewe
A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion and the Bensons in Victorian Britain by Simon Goldhill. Chicago, 337 pp., £24.50, October 2016, 978 0 226 39378 0
Andrew O’Hagan
On Robert Silvers
Jenny Turner
The World Saved by Kids: And Other Epics by Elsa Morante, translated by Cristina Viti. Seagull, 319 pp., £19.50, January 2017, 978 0 85742 379 5
Rosemary Hill
At Pallant House: Victor Pasmore
Charles Hope
Michelangelo & Sebastiano At the National Gallery, until 24 June 2018
J. Robert Lennon
The Fall Guy by James Lasdun. Cape, 266 pp., £12.99, January 2017, 978 1 910702 83 3
Blair Worden
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays by Peter Lake. Yale, 666 pp., £25, November 2016, 978 0 300 22271 5
Paul Batchelor
Poem: ‘The Curlew’
Ange Mlinko
Deaths of the Poets by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts. Cape, 414 pp., £14.99, February 2017, 978 0 224 09754 3
Julian Barnes
Diary: People Will Hate Us Again
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