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Vol. 41 No. 10 · 23 May 2019
Mary Wellesley
Hermits and Anchorites in England, 1200-1550 edited by E.A. Jones. Manchester, 232 pp., £18.99, January 2019, 978 1 5261 2723 5
Letters
Anabel Hernández, C.J. Woods, Peter Henderson, John Hendry, Alberto Balestrieri, Gerard Noonan, Frank Edwards, José Sotolongo, Stephen Sedley, Chris Larkin
Ian Jack
The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain by Brett Christophers. Verso, 394 pp., £20, November 2018, 978 1 78663 158 9
Jacqueline Rose
One Long Scream
James Wolcott
White by Brett Easton Ellis. Picador, 261 pp., £16.99, May 2019, 978 1 5290 1239 2
Lauren Oyler
Godsend by John Wray. Canongate, 228 pp., £14.99, January 2019, 978 1 78211 962 3
Nicholas Penny
At the Royal Academy: The Renaissance Nude
Clair Wills
War and an Irish Town by Eamonn McCann. Haymarket, 288 pp., £14.99, October 2018, 978 1 60846 567 5
Simon Carnell
Poem: ‘Workman’s Picture’
Deborah Friedell
Short Cuts: Jury Duty
Sudhir Hazareesingh
France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic by Herrick Chapman. Harvard, 405 pp., £37.95, January 2018, 978 0 674 97641 2
Rosemary Hill
Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Vol. 26, 1878 edited by Frederick Burkhardt, James Secord and the editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project. Cambridge, 814 pp., £94.99, October 2018, 978 1 108 47540 2
Daniel Soar
Lanny by Max Porter. Faber, 213 pp., £12.99, March 2019, 978 0 571 34028 6
Tim Parks
La Petite Fadette by George Sand, translated by Gretchen van Slyke. Pennsylvania State, 192 pp., £14.95, November 2017, 978 0 271 07937 0 George Sand by Martine Reid, translated by Gretchen van Slyke. Pennsylvania State, 280 pp., £21.95, May 2019, 978 0 271 08106 9
John Mullan
If Not Critical by Eric Griffiths, edited by Freya Johnston. Oxford, 248 pp., £25, March 2018, 978 0 19 880529 8 The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry by Eric Griffiths. Oxford, 351 pp., £55, July 2018, 978 0 19 882701 6
Jan-Werner Müller
Populism and the People
Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘Beyond Dubh-Chladach’
Patrick Tripp
Diary: The Veterans Administration Hospital
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