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Vol. 40 No. 24 · 20 December 2018
John Lanchester
The Case of Agatha Christie
Letters
Nicholas Wade, Meehan Crist, Peter Kornicki, Ian Wright, Eric Gordon, Conrad Barwa, Charles Turner, Michael Jubb, Alison Sealey, Roger Fieldhouse, David Gordon, Anthony King, Thomas Jones, Ben Carver
Joanna Biggs
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. I: 1940-56 edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil. Faber, 1388 pp., £35, September 2017, 978 0 571 32899 4 The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. II: 1956-63 edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil. Faber, 1025 pp., £35, September 2018, 978 0 571 33920 4
Andrew O’Hagan
Lost Property
Danny Dorling
Short Cuts: Homelessness
T.J. Clark
Mantegna and Bellini National Gallery, London, until 27 January 2018
Tom Crewe
Story: ‘Mr Gladstone’s Funeral’
Ella Frears
Poem: ‘And Sand and Sand and Sand’
Tom Shippey
King Arthur: the Making of the Legend by Nicholas Higham. Yale, 380 pp., £25, October 2018, 978 0 300 21092 7
Tim Whitmarsh
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion edited by Esther Eidinow and Julia Kindt. Oxford, 736 pp., £30, December 2017, 978 0 19 881017 9
Norman Dombey
Poison and the Bomb
Owen Bennett-Jones
Can’t Afford to Tell the Truth
Hal Foster
At MoMA: Bruce Nauman
Katrina Navickas
Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre by Jacqueline Riding. Head of Zeus, 386 pp., £25, October 2018, 978 1 78669 583 3
Michael Hofmann
Like a Fading Shadow by Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated by Camilo A. Ramirez. Serpent’s Tail, 310 pp., £9.99, May 2018, 978 1 78125 894 1
Robert VanderMolen
Poem: ‘Roads and Trails’
John Lahr
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday. Penguin, 179 pp., £9.99, November 2018, 978 0 241 35129 1
Patrick McGuinness
On Joan Murray
John Kerrigan
Ladies’ Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy by Yopie Prins. Princeton, 297 pp., £24, April 2017, 978 0 691 14189 3 Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard. Oxford, 331 pp., £60, September 2017, 978 0 19 879311 3 Eclipse of Action: Tragedy and Political Economy by Richard Halpern. Chicago, 313 pp., £34, April 2017, 978 0 226 43365 3 Samson Agonistes: A Redramatisation after Milton by John Kinsella. Arc, 109 pp., £10.99, October 2018, 978 1 911469 55 1
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Hale County This Morning, This Evening’
Inigo Thomas
Diary: Berry Bros
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