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Vol. 39 No. 21 · 2 November 2017
Letters
Marina Warner, Danny Dorling, Jonathan Spencer, Katharine Birbalsingh, Aidan Byrne, Giovanni d’Avossa, Frederick Crews, Andrew Finlay, H.E. Taylor, Margaret Faull
Andrew Bacevich
Foreign Relations of the US, 1952-54, Iran, 1951-54 edited by James Van Hook. for the Department of State/Washington DC. Chiron Academic Press, 970 pp., £20, September 2017, 978 91 7637 496 2
Andy Beckett
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Postwar Britain by Clair Wills. Allen Lane, 442 pp., £25, August 2017, 978 1 84614 716 6
Lucy Prebble
Short Cuts: Harvey Weinstein
Piero Gleijeses
Cuba’s Revolutionary World by Jonathan Brown. Harvard, 600 pp., £25, April 2017, 978 0 674 97198 1
Mike Davis
El Diablo in Wine Country
Madeleine Schwartz
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead. Apollo, 528 pp., £10, April 2016, 978 1 78497 148 9 Letty Fox: Her Luck by Christina Stead. Apollo, 592 pp., £14, May 2017, 978 1 78669 139 2
Malcolm Gaskill
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton. Yale, 360 pp., £25, August 2017, 978 0 300 22904 2
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘From the Transience’
Gavin Francis
Awwooooooooooooooooo!
Jane Campbell
Story: ‘Story: ‘Cat-Brushing’’
Deborah Friedell
The Inkblots by Damion Searls. Simon and Schuster, 406 pp., £20, February 2017, 978 1 4711 3041 0
Greg Woolf
Images of Mithra by Philippa Adrych, Robert Bracey, Dominic Dalglish, Stefanie Lenk and Rachel Wood. Oxford, 240 pp., £30, March 2017, 978 0 19 879253 6
Miriam Dobson
Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring by Kathleen E. Smith. Harvard, 448 pp., £23.95, April 2017, 978 0 674 97200 1
Stefan Collini
Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History by Joseph North. Harvard, 272 pp., £31.95, May 2017, 978 0 674 96773 1
Eleanor Birne
At Tate Britain: Rachel Whiteread
Adam Smyth
The Print Before Photography: An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550-1820 by Antony Griffiths. British Museum, 560 pp., £60, August 2016, 978 0 7141 2695 1
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Blade Runner 2049’
Edmund Gordon
The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead. Virago, 304 pp., £20, April 2017, 978 0 349 00877 6 ‘The Debutante’ and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington. Silver Press, 153 pp., £9.99, April 2017, 978 0 9957162 0 9 Down Below by Leonora Carrington. NYRB, 69 pp., £8.99, May 2017, 978 1 68137 060 6 Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde edited by Jonathan Eburne and Catriona McAra. Manchester, 275 pp., £75, January 2017, 978 1 78499 436 5
Rebecca Tamás
Two Poems
Duncan Wheeler
After the Vote
Patrick McGuinness
Diary: Railway Poetry
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