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Vol. 42 No. 3 · 6 February 2020
Katherine Rundell
Consider the Hermit Crab
Letters
Charles Hope, Ben Lewis, John Belchem, Aaron Hicklin, Angela Devas, Charles Boddicker, Simon Garrett, Leslie Philibert, Detlev Mares, David Book, Sarah Hutton, Katrina Forrester, Philip Temple, Rachel Beaumont, Paul Pritchard
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia by Benjamin Tromly. Oxford, 329 pp., £75, September 2019, 978 0 19 884040 4 The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-90 by Peter Reddaway. Brookings, 337 pp., £25.50, February, 978 0 8157 3773 5
James Butler
What Happened?
Jonathan Parry
Short Cuts: Harry Goes Rogue
Stefan Collini
Liberalism at Large: The World According to the ‘Economist’ by Alexander Zevin. Verso, 538 pp., £25, November 2019, 978 1 78168 624 9
Cora Gilroy-Ware
At Tate Modern: Kara Walker’s ‘Fons Americanus’
N.A.M. Rodger
The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War Two by Evan Mawdsley. Yale, 557 pp., £25, August 2019, 978 0 300 19019 9
Paul Rogers
Against the Current
Samuel Moyn
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer. Cape, 592 pp., £25, May 2019, 978 1 910702 92 5
Stephanie Burt
Four poems after Callimachus
Christian Lorentzen
Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg. Europa, 240 pp., £18.99, August 2019, 978 1 78770 182 3
Clair Wills
On Paul Muldoon
Namara Smith
Guestbook: Ghost Stories by Leanne Shapton. Particular, 320 pp., £22, March 2019, 978 1 84614 493 6
Terry Eagleton
A Cultural History of Tragedy: Vols I-VI edited by Rebecca Bushnell. Bloomsbury Academic, 1302 pp., £395, November 2019, 978 1 4742 8814 9
Michael Wood
‘Parasite’
Elizabeth Prettejohn
The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Vol. III: Imaginary Portraits edited by Lene Østermark-Johansen. Oxford, 359 pp., £115, January 2019, 978 0 19 882343 8 The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Vol. IV: Gaston de Latour edited by Gerald Monsman. Oxford, 399 pp., £115, January 2019, 978 0 19 881616 4 Walter Pater: Selected Essays edited by Alex Wong. Carcanet, 445 pp., £18.99, September 2018, 978 1 78410 626 3
Rae Armantrout
Two Poems
Adewale Maja-Pearce
Diary: In Monrovia
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