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Vol. 41 No. 2 · 24 January 2019
James Wolcott
The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005 by Zachary Leader. Cape, 864 pp., £35, November 2018, 978 0 224 10188 2
Letters
Stephen Sedley, Charles Hope, Sarah Perry, Tom King, Bill Myers, John Calderon, David Elstein, Tim Gopsill, Graham Webb, Georgina Baidoun, Margaret Devitt, Roger Morsley-Smith, Ann Lawson Lucas, Gavin Francis
Seymour M. Hersh
The Vice President’s Men
Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties by Robert Conquest. Bodley Head, 576 pp., £20, November 2018, 978 1 84792 568 8 The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine by Robert Conquest. Bodley Head, 412 pp., £20, November 2018, 978 1 84792 567 1
Andrew O’Hagan
On Being Late
Peter Green
Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens by David Stuttard. Harvard, 380 pp., £21.95, April 2018, 978 0 674 66044 1
Lola Seaton
Short Cuts: Deliveroo
Steven Shapin
Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome by Venki Ramakrishnan. Oneworld, 272 pp., £20, September 2018, 978 1 78607 436 2
Nicholas Penny
Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War by Elizabeth Prettejohn. Yale, 286 pp., £45, June 2017, 978 0 300 22275 3
Tom Crewe
At Tate Britain: Burne-Jones
Andy Beckett
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper by Helen Parr. Allen Lane, 382 pp., £20, September 2018, 978 0 241 28894 8
Steve Ely
Poem: ‘No Repentance’
Laura Jacobs
Aaron Copland’s ‘Appalachian Spring’ by Annegret Fauser. Oxford, 144 pp., £10.99, November 2017, 978 0 19 064687 5
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Roma’
Adam Mars-Jones
Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants by Mathias Enard, translated by Charlotte Mandell. Fitzcarraldo, 144 pp., £10.99, November 2018, 978 1 910695 69 2
Rivka Galchen
Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Ingvild Burkey. Harvill Secker, 240 pp., £16.99, August 2017, 978 1 910701 63 8 Winter by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Ingvild Burkey. Harvill Secker, 272 pp., £16.99, November 2017, 978 1 910701 65 2 Spring by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Ingvild Burkey. Harvill Secker, 192 pp., £16.99, February 2018, 978 1 910701 67 6 Summer by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Ingvild Burkey. Harvill Secker, 416 pp., £16.99, June 2018, 978 1 910701 69 0
Jamie Martin
Till Time’s Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England, 1694-2013 by David Kynaston. Bloomsbury, 879 pp., £35, September 2017, 978 1 4088 6856 0
Richard Lloyd Parry
Diary: In Pyongyang
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