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Vol. 41 No. 24 · 19 December 2019
Colm Tóibín
Me by Elton John. Macmillan, 376 pp., £25, October 2019, 978 1 5098 5331 1
Letters
Roy Macgregor, Will Jones, David Perry, Guido Franzinetti, Nick Athanasiou, Gerard Noonan, Neil Blackshaw, Richard Little, Giles Warrack, Tom Dilworth, Norman Schwartz, John Watson, Stephen Morris
Charles West
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne by Janet Nelson. Allen Lane, 704 pp., £30, July 2019, 978 0 7139 9243 4
Stefan Collini
‘What Is a Nation?’ and Other Political Writings by Ernest Renan, translated and edited by M.F.N. Giglioli. Columbia, 328 pp., £62, September 2018, 978 0 231 17430 5
David Trotter
Corridors: Passages of Modernity by Roger Luckhurst. Reaktion, 240 pp., £25, March 2019, 978 1 78914 053 8
Eric Foner
‘The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret’: George Washington, Slavery and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon by Mary Thompson. Virginia, 502 pp., £32.50, January 2019, 978 0 8139 4184 4
Tony Wood
What next for Bolivia?
Jenny Turner
Face It by Debbie Harry. HarperCollins, 352 pp., £20, October 2019, 978 0 00 822942 9
Inigo Thomas
At the Wallace Collection: East India Company Commissions
Christopher Tayler
The Man who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, ‘Stoner’ and the Writing Life by Charles Shields. Texas, 305 pp., £23.99, October 2018, 978 1 4773 1736 5 Nothing but the Night by John Williams. NYRB, 144 pp., $14.95, February 2019, 978 1 68137 307 2
Rebecca Tamás
Poem: ‘Medusa in Venice’
Penelope Fitzgerald
Some people never expect to be expected
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature, 1939-51 by D.J. Taylor. Constable, 388 pp., £25, September 2019, 978 1 4721 2686 3
Harry Stopes
Short Cuts: Life on Licence
Charles Nicholl
Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist by Elizabeth Goldring. Yale, 337 pp., £40, February 2019, 978 0 300 24142 6
Brian Dillon
At the Jeu de Paume: Peter Hujar
Tom Shippey
Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World edited by Elizabeth Morrison, with Larisa Grollemond. Getty, 354 pp., £45, June 2019, 978 1 60606 590 7
John Lanchester
Diary: A Whiff of Tear Gas
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