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Vol. 42 No. 11 · 4 June 2020
Eliot Weinberger
The American Virus
Letters
Roland Salmon, Matthew Barr, Alexander Wyndham Ashworth, David Cressy, Jamie Jackson, Robert Boon, M.J. Taylor, Andrew Kozelka, Melanie Hawthorne, John Eklund
John Lanchester
Maigret’s Room
Diane Williams
Story: ‘Have a Seat in the Big Black Chair’
Colin Burrow
Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick by Richard J. King. Chicago, 430 pp., £23, November 2019, 978 0 226 51496 3 Complete Poems by Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker. Library of America, 990 pp., £37.99, August 2019, 978 1 59853 618 8
Long Ling
In Beijing
Rosemary Hill
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner. Hodder, 336 pp., £20, October 2019, 978 1 5293 5906 0
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Arkansas’
Susan Pedersen
Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution by Selina Todd. Chatto, 304 pp., £18.99, August 2019, 978 1 78474 082 5 A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney. Methuen, 112 pp., £14.44, November 2019, 978 1 350 13495 9
Jane Miller
At Home
Helen Pfeifer
Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought 1450-1750 by Noel Malcolm. Oxford, 512 pp., £25, May 2019, 978 0 19 883013 9
Blake Morrison
Poem: ‘Muntjac’
Geoff Mann
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Harvard, 1150 pp., £31.95, March, 978 0 674 98082 2
Jérôme Tubiana
Short Cuts: In Tripoli
Christopher Tayler
The Death of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee. Harvill Secker, 208 pp., £18.99, January, 978 1 78730 211 2
Nicola Jennings
At Auckland Castle: Francisco de Zurbarán
Steven Shapin
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy Winegard. Text, 300 pp., £12.99, September 2019, 978 1 911231 12 7
Nicholas Spice
Diary: In the Isolation Room
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