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Vol. 42 No. 20 · 22 October 2020
Wang Xiuying
China after Covid
Letters
Margo Miller, Rosalind Delmar, Tom King, Richard Davenport-Hines, Paul Mountain, Henry Day, Rosalind Eyben, Victoria Horne
Paul Keegan
Emily of Fire & Violence
Michael Nott
Thom Gunn in New York
Anne Enright
Jack by Marilynne Robinson. Virago, 309 pp., £18.99, September 2020, 978 0 349 01181 3
Steve Ely
Poem: ‘John’s & Sam’s’
James Meek
Red Pill, Blue Pill
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: Black Forest Thinking
Hal Foster
Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist and Those Aspiring to Become One by Walter Serner, translated by Mark Kanak. Twisted Spoon Press, 189 pp., £15, July, 978 80 86264 45 5 At the Blue Monkey: 33 Outlandish Stories by Walter Serner, translated by Erik Butler. Wakefield, 192 pp., £13.99, December 2019, 978 1 939663 46 7
Susannah Clapp
Square Haunting by Francesca Wade. Faber, 422 pp., £20, January, 978 0 571 33065 2
John Kerrigan
Slavery and Revenge
Christina Riggs
A World beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson. Picador, 510 pp., £25, October, 978 1 5098 5870 5
Janique Vigier
At the Shrink
John Lahr
Casting Shadows: Fish and Fishing in Britain by Tom Fort. William Collins, 368 pp., £20, April, 978 0 00 828344 5
Nicole Flattery
Rainbow Milk by Mendez. Dialogue, 353 pp., £14.99, April 2020, 978 0 349 70059 5
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Enola Holmes’
Tom Stevenson
Proxy Wars: Suppressing Violence through Local Agents by Eli Berman and David A. Lake. Cornell, 354 pp., £23.99, March 2019, 978 1 5017 3306 2 Proxy War: The Least Bad Option by Tyrone L. Groh. Stanford, 264 pp., £56, March 2019, 978 1 5036 0818 4 Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the 21st Century by Andreas Krieg and Jean-Marc Rickli. Georgetown, 258 pp., £21.99, June 2019, 978 1 62616 678 3
Fleur Macdonald
Diary: In Conakry
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