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Vol. 41 No. 21 · 7 November 2019
Letters
Alice Twemlow, Nick Wray, Jane Hyde, Martin Mears, Craig Sams
Rosemary Hill
A Scribbler in Soho: A Celebration of Auberon Waugh edited by Naim Attallah. Quartet, 341 pp., £20, January 2019, 978 0 7043 7457 7
Christopher Clark
Hitler: A Life by Peter Longerich. Oxford, 1324 pp., £30, July 2019, 978 0 19 879609 1 Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms. Allen Lane, 668 pp., £30, September 2019, 978 1 84614 247 5
Ian Gilmour
Europe or America?
Deborah Friedell
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. Chatto, 419 pp., £20, September 2019, 978 1 78474 232 4
Joanna Biggs
Short Cuts: Would you whistleblow?
Hal Foster
Change at MoMA
Paul Keegan
David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet by Thomas Dilworth. Vintage, 448 pp., £14.99, January 2019, 978 0 7847 0800 2 Epoch and Artist Selected Writings by David Jones, edited by Harman Grisewood. Faber, 320 pp., £18.99, April 2017, 978 0 571 33950 1 ‘The Dying Gaul’ and Other Writings by David Jones, edited by Harman Grisewood. Faber, 240 pp., £17.99, April 2017, 978 0 571 33953 2 Dai Greatcoat A Self-Portrait of David Jones in His Letters edited by René Hague. Faber, 280 pp., £17.99, April 2017, 978 0 571 33952 5
Eleanor Birne
At the David Parr House: There are two histories here
Michael Wood
Sept conférences sur Marcel Proust by Bernard de Fallois. Editions de Fallois, 312 pp., €20, January 2019, 978 1 03 210214 6 Proust avant Proust Essai sur ‘Les Plaisirs et les jours’ by Bernard de Fallois. Les Belles Lettres, 192 pp., €21.50, May 2019, 978 2 251 44939 5 ‘Le Mystérieux Correspondant’ et autres nouvelles inédites by Marcel Proust, edited by Luc Fraisse. Editions de Fallois, 174 pp., €18.50, October 2019, 978 1 03 210229 0
Misha Glenny and Callum Lang
How to Buy Drugs
Patrick Cockburn
Choke Point
John Furse
The NHS Dismantled
Lisa Cohen
Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes by Shahidha Bari. Cape, 312 pp., £25, June 2019, 978 1 78733 149 5
Fiona Benson
Poem: ‘Mosquitoes, Mozambique (Anopheles)’
Thomas Meaney
The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on Its Way to the Old Continent by Stephen Smith. Polity, 197 pp., £15.99, April 2019, 978 1 5095 3457 9
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Non-Fiction’
David Trotter
Diary: Bearness
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