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Vol. 42 No. 24 · 17 December 2020
John Lanchester
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. Bloomsbury, 400 pp., £20, August 2020, 978 1 4729 3749 0
Letters
William Beaver, Isabelle Stuart, David Berry, Bob Billington, Henry Spencer, Neville Grant, Barry Schwabsky, Ian Birchall, Charlotte Hanson, John Chalcraft
Julian Bell
A History of Art History by Christopher Wood. Princeton, 472 pp., £30, September 2019, 978 0 691 15652 1
Perry Anderson
The European Coup
Rupert Beale
Get the jab!
Diane Williams
Story: ‘Tassel Rue’
Neal Ascherson
November 1918: The German Revolution by Robert Gerwarth. Oxford, 368 pp., £20, June 2020, 978 0 19 954647 3
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Diego! Diego!
Eric Foner
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S. Reynolds. Penguin, 1066 pp., £33.69, September, 978 1 59420 604 7 The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom by H.W. Brands. Doubleday, 445 pp., £24, October, 978 0 385 54400 9
John Burnside
Poem: ‘The Night Ferry’
Rosemary Hill
Friends and Enemies: A Memoir by Barbara Amiel. Constable, 592 pp., £25, October 2020, 978 1 4721 3421 9 Diary of an MP’s Wife: Inside and Outside Power by Sasha Swire. Little, Brown, 544 pp., £20, September 2020, 978 1 4087 1341 9
Alison Light
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale. Bloomsbury, 345 pp., £18.99, October, 978 1 4088 9545 0
David Trotter
The Artful Dickens: Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist by John Mullan. Bloomsbury, 428 pp., £16.99, October 2020, 978 1 4088 6681 8
Julia Bryan-Wilson
At BAMPFA: Rosie Lee Tompkins
Lili Owen Rowlands
Vernon Subutex Three by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne. MacLehose, 306 pp., £14.99, June, 978 0 85705 982 6
Jonathan Raban
War is noise
Michael Wood
At the Movies: Marlene Dietrich
Celia Paul
Diary: Painting in the Dark
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