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Vol. 40 No. 6 · 22 March 2018
Letters
Jeremy Gordon, Eamon Duffy, Gary Leiser, John Rappole, Ian Rapley, John-Paul McCarthy, Cal McCrystal, Vicky Lebeau, Geoffrey Giles, Purky Kidder, Rob McKenzie, Philip Clark, James Graham, Steven Rendall
Amia Srinivasan
Does anyone have the right to sex?
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Shape of Water’
Linda Colley
Can history help?
Michael Neill
The Shakespearean Forest by Anne Barton. Cambridge, 185 pp., £75, August 2017, 978 0 521 57344 3
Jeremy Harding
Phantom Africa by Michel Leiris, translated by Brent Hayes Edwards. Seagull, 711 pp., £42, January 2017, 978 0 85742 377 1
Mark Ford
Poem: ‘Love Triangle’
Eric Foner
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History by Anne C. Bailey. Cambridge, 197 pp., £19.99, November 2017, 978 1 316 64348 8
Stuart Middleton
Max Eastman: A Life by Christoph Irmscher. Yale, 434 pp., £35, August 2017, 978 0 300 22256 2
Eleanor Birne
At Kettle’s Yard: The Reopening
Christopher Tayler
The Impostor by Javier Cercas, translated by Frank Wynne. MacLehose Press, 429 pp., £20, November 2017, 978 0 85705 650 4
Tom Crewe
Short Cuts: Colourisation
John Barrell
Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain by Julian Glover. Bloomsbury, 403 pp., £10.99, January 2018, 978 1 4088 3748 1
Steven Rose
Improbable Destinies: How Predictable Is Evolution? by Jonathan Losos. Allen Lane, 364 pp., £20, August 2017, 978 0 241 20192 3
Theo Tait
The Adulterants by Joe Dunthorne. Hamish Hamilton, 173 pp., £12.99, February 2018, 978 0 241 30547 8
Gaby Wood
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes. NYRB, 224 pp., $14.95, August 2017, 978 1 68137 147 4 In a Lonely Place directed by Nicholas Ray. Criterion Collection, £14.99
Eli Silberman
Diary: The Victory Day Parade
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