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Vol. 42 No. 4 · 20 February 2020
Letters
Alexander Zevin, Philip Hensher, Thom Cross, Leslie Green, Jeremy Mitchell, Ouida Weaver
Erin Maglaque
Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City by John Henderson. Yale, 363 pp., £30, July 2019, 978 0 300 19634 4
Ferdinand Mount
Après Brexit
David Bromwich
Short Cuts: Springtime for Donald
Claire Hall
The Realness of Things Past: Ancient Greece and Ontological History by Greg Anderson. Oxford, 336 pp., £55, September 2018, 978 0 19 088664 6
William Davies
Generation Left by Keir Milburn. Polity, 140 pp., £9.99, May 2019, 978 1 5095 3224 7
Mary Ann Caws
At the North Miami Museum: Alice Paalen Rahon
Christopher Tayler
Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan by Ursula Buchan. Bloomsbury, 479 pp., £25, April 2019, 978 1 4088 7081 5
Christian Lorentzen
Goldfinching
Colin Burrow
Fiction and the Age of Lies
Tariq Ali
Bootlicking
James Lasdun
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper. Riverrun, 289 pp., £14.99, October 2019, 978 1 78747 800 8
Tessa Hadley
Collected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen. Everyman, 904 pp., £18.99, October 2019, 978 1 84159 392 0
Rosemary Hill
At the Corner House
Thomas Jones
Agency by William Gibson. Viking, 402 pp., £18.99, January, 978 0 241 23721 2
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘Murph & Me’
Kevin Brazil
The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward: Recollections of an Extraordinary 20th-Century Gay Life edited by Jeremy Mulderig. Chicago, 274 pp., £22.50, May 2018, 978 0 226 54141 9
David Thomson
Conclusions by John Boorman. Faber, 237 pp., £20, February, 978 0 571 35379 8
John-Paul Stonard
In Shanghai: The West Bund Museum
Jenny Turner
Diary: The Deborah Orr I Knew
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