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Vol. 40 No. 1 · 4 January 2018
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Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown. Fourth Estate, 423 pp., £16.99, September 2017, 978 0 00 820361 0
Letters
Lyn Jones, Raymond Clayton, Peter Baker, Scott Krieger, Rayah Feldman, Bryn Jones, Anne Summers, Norbert Hirschhorn, Peter Brawne, Sean French, Nicholas Tracy
Colin Burrow
The Book of Dust, Vol. I: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman. David Fickling, 546 pp., £20, October 2017, 978 0 385 60441 3 Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling by Philip Pullman. David Fickling, 480 pp., £20, October 2017, 978 1 910200 96 4
Michael Wood
Mrs Osmond by John Banville. Viking, 376 pp., £14.99, October 2017, 978 0 241 26017 3
Julian Barnes
Degas: A Passion for Perfection Fitzwilliam Museum/Cambridge, until 14 January 2018Degas Danse Dessin: Hommage à Degas avec Paul Valéry Musée d’Orsay/Paris, until 25 February 2018Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell National Gallery, London, until 7 May 2018Degas and His Model by Alice Michel, translated by Jeff Nagy. David Zwirner, 88 pp., £8.95, June 2017, 978 1 941701 55 3
Jackson Lears
What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Russian Hacking
Neve Gordon
The ‘New Anti-Semitism’
Patricia Lockwood
Joan Didion: The Centre Will Not Hold directed by Griffin Dunne.South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion. Fourth Estate, 160 pp., £10, September 2017, 978 0 00 825717 0
Gerard Fanning
Poem: ‘Rookery’
Colin Munro
Thus were the British defeated
Rosemary Hill
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli and the Great Stink of 1858 by Rosemary Ashton. Yale, 352 pp., £25, July 2017, 978 0 300 22726 0
Sam Kinchin-Smith
The Only Way
Joanne O’Leary
A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume. Heinemann, 320 pp., £12.99, February 2017, 978 1 78515 041 8
David Runciman
My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown. Bodley Head, 512 pp., £25, November 2017, 978 1 84792 497 1
Inigo Thomas
Short Cuts: Cromwell’s Seal
John Lanchester
Story: ‘Coffin Liquor’
Peter Spagnuolo
Poem: ‘Caliban Rex’
Saul Nelson
At the Barbican: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Alan Bennett
Diary: Finding My Métier
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