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Vol. 42 No. 22 · 19 November 2020
Letters
Stephen Romer, Jon Day, Tony Judge, Elizabeth Vandiver, Matt Shenton, Laurence Carter, Vanessa Sherlock, David Kronenfeld, Ben Knights
Julian Barnes
The Letters of Edgar Degas edited by Theodore Reff. Wildenstein Plattner Institute, 1464 pp., £150, June, 978 0 9988175 1 4
Adam Shatz
Why go high?
Mike Davis
Short Cuts: Rio Grande Valley Republicans
David Bromwich
Warthog Dynamism
Susan Pedersen
Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy by Emma Griffin. Yale, 389 pp., £20, April 2020, 978 0 300 23006 2
Katherine Rundell
Consider the Giraffe
Helen McCarthy
Endell Street: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital by Wendy Moore. Atlantic, 376 pp., £17.99, April, 978 1 78649 584 6
Pooja Bhatia
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S. Scott. Verso, 246 pp., £12.99, September 2020, 978 1 78873 248 2 Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti by Johnhenry Gonzalez. Yale, 302 pp., £30, August 2019, 978 0 300 23008 6 Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh. Penguin, 442 pp., £25, September 2020, 978 0 241 29381 2
Daniel Soar
At the Pace Gallery: Trevor Paglen
Kevin Okoth
Homie by Danez Smith. Chatto, 96 pp., £10.99, February, 978 1 78474 305 5 The Tradition by Jericho Brown. Picador, 72 pp., £10.99, August 2019, 978 1 5290 2047 2
Tobias Gregory
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Colin Burrow. Oxford, 470 pp., £36.99, May 2019, 978 0 19 883808 1 How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate. Princeton, 361 pp., £15.99, October 2020, 978 0 691 21014 8
Clare Bucknell
Figureheads
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘Oh What A Night (Alkibiades)’
Mendez
Real Life by Brandon Taylor. Daunt, 327 pp., £9.99, July 2020, 978 1 911547 74 7
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Time’
Lawrence Rosen
Sunnis and Shi’a: A Political History by Laurence Louër. Princeton, 227 pp., £25, February, 978 0 691 18661 0 Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry that Unravelled the Middle East by Kim Ghattas. Wildfire, 337 pp., £20, January, 978 1 4722 7109 9
Jacqueline Rose
To Die One’s Own Death
Colm Tóibín
Diary: Alone in Venice
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