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Vol. 42 No. 23 · 3 December 2020
Letters
Neil Corcoran, Howard Medwell, Patrick Renshaw, John Hare, Robert Hunter, Tony Dennis, Meghan Forbes, Jane Card, Adam Czerniawski, Amit Pandya
James Butler
Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour under Corbyn by Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire. Bodley Head, 376 pp., £18.99, September, 978 1 84792 645 6 This Land: The Story of a Movement by Owen Jones. Allen Lane, 336 pp., £20, September, 978 0 241 47094 7
Vera Tolz
Short Cuts: Troll Factories
Andrew O’Hagan
The Silence by Don DeLillo. Picador, 117 pp., £14.99, October, 978 1 5290 5709 6
David Runciman
The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World by Barry Gewen. Norton, 452 pp., £22.99, April 2020, 978 1 324 00405 9 Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography by Thomas Schwartz. Hill and Wang, 548 pp., £27.99, September 2020, 978 0 8090 9537 7
Jonathan Parry
Statesman of Europe: a Life of Sir Edward Grey by T.G. Otte. Allen Lane, 858 pp., £35, November, 978 0 241 41336 4
Kate Retford
The Age of Undress: Art, fashion and the classical ideal in the 1790s by Amelia Rauser. Yale, 215 pp., £35, March, 978 0 300 24120 4
David A. Bell
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History by Alexander Mikaberidze. Oxford, 936 pp., £25.99, April 2020, 978 0 19 995106 2
Erin Maglaque
Out of Italy by Fernand Braudel, translated by Siân Reynolds. Europa, 295 pp., £12.99, July 2019, 978 1 78770 166 3
Tom Shippey
Edward the Confessor: Last of the Royal Blood by Tom Licence. Yale, 332 pp., £25, August 2020, 978 0 300 21154 2
Andrew Cockburn
The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace by Michael Boyle. Oxford, 336 pp., £22.99, September, 978 0 19 063586 2 Drone Art: The Everywhere War as Medium by Thomas Stubblefield. California, 218 pp., £70, February, 978 0 520 33961 3 Hellfire from Paradise Ranch: On the Front Lines of Drone Warfare by Joseba Zulaika. California, 289 pp., £25, June, 978 0 520 32974 4 The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare by Christian Brose. Hachette, 288 pp., £21, April, 978 0 316 53353 9
Niela Orr
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. Bloomsbury, 310 pp., £12.99, January, 978 1 5266 1214 4
Hal Foster
At MoMA: Félix Fénéon
Michael Wood
Dostoïevski by Julia Kristeva. Buchet/Chastel, 256 pp., €14, March, 978 2 283 03040 0 At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva by Alice Jardine. Bloomsbury, 400 pp., £19.99, January, 978 1 5013 4133 5
Ange Mlinko
Time Lived, without Its Flow by Denise Riley. Picador, 85 pp., £9.99, October 2019, 978 1 5290 1710 6 Selected Poems: 1976-2016 by Denise Riley. Picador, 210 pp., £14.99, October 2019, 978 1 5290 1712 0
Christian Lorentzen
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart. Picador, 448 pp., £14.99, August, 978 1 5290 1927 8
Patricia Lockwood
Diary: America is a baby
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