Vol. 41 No. 20 · 24 October 2019
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Vol. 41 No. 20 · 24 October 2019
Letters
Suzanne Shearer, Will Hadwen, Angus Doulton, Nick Matthews, David McDowall, Laurie Taylor, Patrick Parrinder, Penny Collier
Richard Lloyd Parry
The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure by Carl Hoffman. William Morrow, 347 pp., £14.74, March 2019, 978 0 06 243905 5
Judith Butler
Genius or Suicide
Mary Beard
On Rape by Germaine Greer. Bloomsbury, 96 pp., £12.99, September 2018, 978 1 5266 0840 6
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘Final Choral Ode’
Nicholas Spice
Debussy: A Painter in Sound by Stephen Walsh. Faber, 368 pp., £15.99, March 2018, 978 0 571 33016 4 Claude Debussy: A Critical Biography by François Lesure, translated by Marie Rolf. Rochester, 478 pp., £40, June 2019, 978 1 58046 903 6
Richard Taws
At King’s Cross: Amalia Pica’s ‘Semaphores’
James Wolcott
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser. Allen Lane, 832 pp., £30, September 2019, 978 0 241 00348 0
James Meek
The Dreamings of Dominic Cummings
David Bromwich
Short Cuts: Alexander Hamilton’s Worst Idea
Hal Foster
Richard Hamilton: Introspective by Phillip Spectre. König, 408 pp., £49, September 2019, 978 3 88375 695 0
Thomas Powers
The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour – an Introduction by J.D. Salinger. Little, Brown, 1072 pp., $100, November 2018, 978 0 316 45071 3
Katherine Rundell
Consider the Hedgehog
Adam Shatz
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev. Head of Zeus, 804 pp., £30, August 2019, 978 1 78954 462 6
Neal Ascherson
Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman by Charles Williams. Biteback, 566 pp., £25, June 2019, 978 1 84954 746 8
Colin Burrow
On Ilya Kaminsky
Clare Bucknell
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. Hamish Hamilton, 452 pp., £16.99, May 2019, 978 0 241 36490 1
Adam Smyth
Spring by Ali Smith. Hamish Hamilton, 336 pp., £16.99, March 2019, 978 0 241 20704 8 The Porpoise by Mark Haddon. Chatto, 309 pp., £18.99, May 2019, 978 1 78474 282 9
Anne Enright
Diary: The Monsters of #MeToo
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