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Vol. 42 No. 9 · 7 May 2020
Jacqueline Rose
Pointing the Finger
Letters
Kate Kirkpatrick, Ian Birchall, James Higgs, Thomas Ciantra, Augustine Dennis, Magdalena Edwards, S.R. Baker, Malcolm Vale, James Fanning, Page Nelson, Daniel Whittall
Paul Taylor
Susceptible, Infectious, Recovered
Colm Tóibín
The Dolphin Letters, 1970-79: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and Their Circle edited by Saskia Hamilton. Faber, 560 pp., £35, January, 978 0 571 35741 3 The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-73 by Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton. Farrar, Straus, 224 pp., £11.99, December 2019, 978 0 374 53827 9
Katherine Rundell
Consider the Greenland Shark
Ferdinand Mount
Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay. Head of Zeus, 352 pp., £30, January 2020, 978 1 78185 256 9
Lauren Oyler
Short Cuts: Internet Speak
Yonatan Mendel
Covid-19 in the Time of Netanyahu
Michael Wood
At the Movies: Buster Keaton’s Last Great Film
Ange Mlinko
The Complete Gary Lutz by Gary Lutz. Tyrant, 500 pp., £15, December 2019, 978 1 7335359 1 5
Blake Morrison
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Faber, 384 pp., £14.99, January, 978 0 571 35551 8
Tom Crewe
On the Shelf
Irina Dumitrescu
Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain by Carissa Harris. Cornell, 306 pp., £36, December 2018, 978 1 5017 3040 5
David Renton
Becoming homeless is easily done
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Thaw’
Colin Kidd
Remaking One Nation: The Future of Conservatism by Nick Timothy. Polity, 275 pp., £20, March 2020, 978 1 5095 3917 8
Brian Dillon
‘Linderism’
Patrick Cockburn
Diary: The 1956 Polio Epidemic
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