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Vol. 42 No. 17 · 10 September 2020
Letters
Colin Burrow, Roger Thorp, Paul Dean, Michael Dobson, Michael Neill, Mary Braithwaite, David Hannay, Martin Levien, Don Lock, Raymond Aronson, Michael Prior, Colin Matthews, David Ings, Masolino d’Amico
Christian Lorentzen
Yesterday’s Man: The Case against Joe Biden by Branko Marcetic. Verso, 288 pp., £12.99, March 2020, 978 1 83976 028 0
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Bauman: A Biography by Izabela Wagner. Polity, 510 pp., £25, June, 978 1 5095 2686 4
Paul Taylor
Short Cuts: Ofqual and the Algorithm
J. Robert Lennon
If It Bleeds by Stephen King. Hodder, 369 pp., £20, April, 978 1 5293 9153 4
Tom Stevenson
The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe by Thane Gustafson. Harvard, 506 pp., £31.95, January 2020, 978 0 674 98795 1
Colm Tóibín
Warhol: A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik. Allen Lane, 931 pp., £35, March, 978 0 241 00338 1
Kathleen Jamie
Poem: ‘Tree on the Hill’
Caroline Campbell
A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana edited by Leticia Ruiz Gómez. Museo Nacional del Prado, 255 pp., £25, January, 978 84 8480 537 3 Sofonisba’s Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work by Michael Cole. Princeton, 312 pp., £50, February, 978 0 691 19832 3
Frances Stonor Saunders
The Suitcase: Part Three
Peter Spagnuolo
Poem: ‘1973, 4-Stroke, 600 ccs’
Nicholas Penny
At Saint-Germain-des-Prés: Flandrin’s Murals
Toril Moi
Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between by Ann Jefferson. Princeton, 425 pp., £34, August 2020, 978 0 691 19787 6
Clair Wills
On Hope Mirrlees
Irina Dumitrescu
Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History of Reading by Jennifer Richards. Oxford, 329 pp., £65, October 2019, 978 0 19 880906 7 Learning Languages in Early Modern England by John Gallagher. Oxford, 274 pp., £60, August 2019, 978 0 19 883790 9
Ian Penman
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte. Penguin, 316 pp., £9.99, February, 978 0 14 198675 3
Wynford Hicks
Diary: My Summer with Boris’s Mother
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