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Vol. 43 No. 1 · 7 January 2021
James Wood
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge. Penguin, 276 pp., £16.99, June 2020, 978 0 241 41427 9 The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography by Mark Evan Bonds. Oxford, 325 pp., £22.99, January 2020, 978 0 19 006847 9 Beethoven: Variations on a Life by Mark Evan Bonds. Oxford, 147 pp., £14.99, September 2020, 978 0 19 005408 3 Beethoven: The New Complete Edition Deutsche Grammophon, 123 discs, November 2019
Letters
Ray Argyle, David Forrester, Colin Leys and Leo Panitch, Tom Flynn, Diana Wallace, Mark Peterson, Chris Bailey, Daniel Spaulding, Rachel Ware
Lydia Davis
Story: ‘Dear Who Gives a C**p’
Meehan Crist
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock. Allen Lane, 160 pp., £9.99, July 2020, 978 0 14 199079 8
David Runciman
A Promised Land by Barack Obama. Viking, 768 pp., £35, November 2020, 978 0 241 49151 5
Nick Richardson
Short Cuts: The Classic Apocalypse
Seamus Perry
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey. Yale, 303 pp., £14.99, March 2020, 978 0 300 23222 6
Yohann Koshy
On the Sofa
Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Spark That Lit the Revolution: Lenin in London and the Politics That Changed the World by Robert Henderson. I.B.Tauris, 270 pp., £17.99, March 2020, 978 1 78453 862 0
Perry Anderson
Ever Closer Union?
Ben Walker
At Burlington House
Ben Lerner
Poem: ‘The Stone’
Esther Chadwick
Black in Rembrandt’s Time edited by Elmer Kolfin and Epco Runia. WBooks, 135 pp., £20, April 2020, 978 94 6258 372 6
Ian Jack
The Railway Hobby
Naoise Dolan
As You Were by Elaine Feeney. Harvill Secker, 392 pp., £14.99, August 2020, 978 1 78730 163 4
Will Frears
My Life in Red and White by Arsène Wenger, translated by Daniel Hahn and Andrea Reece. Weidenfeld, 352 pp., £25, October 2020, 978 1 4746 1824 3
Alan Bennett
Diary: A Round of Applause
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