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Vol. 41 No. 1 · 3 January 2019
Letters
David Ford, Jamie Angus, Owen Bennett-Jones, Brian Cheadle, John O’Dowd, Euan Macdonald, Harald Prins
David Runciman
Which way to the exit?
On Brexit
Patrick McGuinness, Maria Dimitrova, Dubravka Ugrešić, Christopher Prendergast, Jeremy Harding, Thomas Meaney, Alexander Clapp, Ottilie Mulzet, Joanne O’Leary, Thomas Jones, Aslak Sira Myhre, Agata Pyzik, Tor Krever, Lorna Scott Fox, Bernard Porter, Kajsa Ohrlander
Francis Gooding
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte. Macmillan, 404 pp., £20, May 2018, 978 1 5098 3006 0
Katherine Rundell
Consider the Narwhal
Robert Cioffi
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn. Princeton, 360 pp., £27, December 2017, 978 0 691 17527 0
Michael Wood
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch. Vintage, 432 pp., £9.99, July 2019, 978 1 78487 518 3
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘On Davey’
Billy Beswick
Short Cuts: At Peking University
Seamus Perry
Selected Poems and Prose by Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy. Penguin, 893 pp., £12.99, January 2017, 978 0 241 25306 9
Charles Hope
At the National Gallery: Lorenzo Lotto
Jessie Childs
Battle-Scarred: Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars edited by David Appleby and Andrew Hopper. Manchester, 247 pp., £80, July 2018, 978 1 5261 2480 7
Tom Paulin
Poem: ‘The Revenant’
Edmund Gordon
Melmoth by Sarah Perry. Serpent’s Tail, 271 pp., £16.99, October 2018, 978 1 78816 065 0
Alex Abramovich
Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life by Jonathan Gould. Crown, 544 pp., £12.99, May 2018, 978 0 307 45395 2
Daniel Soar
At the Royal Academy: Renzo Piano
Alan Bennett
Diary: Allelujah!
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