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Vol. 41 No. 12 · 20 June 2019
Letters
Nico Mann, Russell Jackson, Andrew Whitehead, James Grainger, Adrian Guelke, Dominic Pearce, Lawrence Dunn, Ben Bethell, David Lobina, Mark Sheehan, Alice Wickenden, Danny Dorling
David Runciman
Steely Women in a World of Wobbly Men
William Davies
They don’t even need ideas
Tom Stevenson
How to Run a Caliphate
Ian Penman
Prince: Life and Times by Jason Draper. Chartwell, 216 pp., £15.99, February 2017, 978 0 7858 3497 7 The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince by Mayte Garcia. Trapeze, 304 pp., £9.99, April 2018, 978 1 4091 7121 8
Kathleen Jamie
Short Cuts: Queuing for Everest
Andrew Preston
The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War by Michael Cotey Morgan. Princeton, 424 pp., £27, November 2018, 978 0 691 17606 2
Blake Morrison
Homeland by Walter Kempowski, translated by Charlotte Collins. Granta, 240 pp., £14.99, November 2018, 978 1 78378 352 6
Mark Ford
Philip Larkin: Letters Home, 1936-77 edited by James Booth. Faber, 688 pp., £40, November 2018, 978 0 571 33559 6
Lili Owen Rowlands
A Father: Puzzle by Sibylle Lacan, translated by Adrian Nathan West. MIT, 92 pp., £20, July 2019, 978 0 262 03931 4
Daisy Hildyard
At the Biennale: ‘Sun and Sea (Marina)’
Luke Kennard
Early Work by Andrew Martin. Picador, 256 pp., £14.50, July 2019, 978 1 250 21501 7
Adam Shatz
Jean-Pierre Melville: Le Solitaire by Bertrand Teissier. Fayard, 272 pp., €22, October 2017, 978 2 213 70573 6 Jean-Pierre Melville, une vie by Antoine de Baecque. Seuil, 244 pp., €32, October 2017, 978 2 02 137107 9
Michael Hofmann
At the Orangerie: Marc and Macke
Paul Theroux
Diary: My Gaggle
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