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Vol. 42 No. 5 · 5 March 2020
Wang Xiuying
The Word from Wuhan
Letters
Stefan Collini, David Elstein, Danny Dorling, Paul Eustice, Anthony Moore, Peter Reddaway, Hassan Damluji, David Seddon, Steve Merlan, Leslie Green, Pádraig McAuliffe, Stephen Sedley, Liam Shaw
Luc Sante
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes. Cape, 280 pp., £20, November 2019, 978 1 78733 216 4
Meehan Crist
Is it OK to have a child?
August Kleinzahler
Short Cuts: Ubu Unchained
Nicole Flattery
Actress by Anne Enright. Cape, 264 pp., £16.99, February, 978 1 78733 206 5
Clare Bucknell
Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen’s England by Rory Muir. Yale, 384 pp., £25, August 2019, 978 0 300 24431 1
Adam Shatz
At the Malin Gallery: Oliver Lee Jackson
Alison Light
Feminism and the Servant Problem: Class and Domestic Labour in the Women’s Suffrage Movement by Laura Schwartz. Cambridge, 248 pp., £75, July 2019, 978 1 108 47133 6
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘1 x 30’
Francis FitzGibbon
Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain by Thomas Grant. John Murray, 448 pp., £10.99, April, 978 1 4736 5163 0
James Vincent
The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness by Emanuele Lugli. Chicago, 312 pp., £27, May 2019, 978 0 226 61249 2
J. Robert Lennon
Big Sky by Kate Atkinson. Black Swan, 356 pp., £8.99, January, 978 0 552 77666 0
Matthew Bevis
On Rachael Allen
Andrew Cockburn
Like a Ball of Fire
Tom Shippey
The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure edited by Chris Fern, Tania Dickinson and Leslie Webster. Society of Antiquaries, 640 pp., £45, November 2019, 978 1 5272 3350 8
Mary Wellesley
Islands in the West: Classical Myth and the Medieval Norse and Irish Geographical Imagination by Matthias Egeler. Brepols, 357 pp., £100, October 2018, 978 2 503 56938 3
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Jojo Rabbit’ and ‘A Hidden Life’
Heribert Adam
The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela by Sisonke Msimang. Jonathan Ball, 173 pp., £20, September 2018, 978 1 86842 955 4 Truth, Lies and Alibis: A Winnie Mandela Story by Fred Bridgland. Tafelberg, 311 pp., £25, October 2018, 978 0 624 08425 9
Nick McDonell
Diary: A Friendly Fighting Force
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