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Vol. 43 No. 2 · 21 January 2021
Perry Anderson
The Breakaway
Letters
Adam Lechmere, James Hall, Sophus Helle, Rhoda Koenig, Nicholas Tracy, Martin Rudwick, David Elstein, Bob Hall
Colin Burrow
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations edited by David Streitfeld. Melville House, 180 pp., £12.99, February 2019, 978 1 61219 779 1 The Carrier Bag Theory Of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin. Ignota, 42 pp., £4.99, November 2019, 978 1 9996759 9 8
Madeleine Schwartz
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh. Penguin, 240 pp., £8.99, April 2019, 978 0 241 98301 0 Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh. Hamish Hamilton, 304 pp., £12.99, August 2020, 978 0 241 40445 4
Jane Miller
News from No One
Colm Tóibín
The Bergoglio Smile
James Butler
At the British Museum: Tantra
Hazel V. Carby
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. Allen Lane, 476 pp., £20, August 2020, 978 0 241 48651 1
Randall Kennedy
Cynical Realism
Adam Shatz
Short Cuts: The Four-Year Assault
J. Robert Lennon
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh. Cape, 259 pp., £14.99, August 2020, 978 1 78733 220 1
Andrew O’Hagan
Sea State by Tabitha Lasley. Fourth Estate, 227 pp., £14.99, February 2021, 978 0 00 839093 8
Linda Gregerson
Poem: ‘Archival’
Michael Hofmann
Slashed, Red and Dead
Niela Orr
The Masks of Doom
Gavin Francis
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black. Doubleday, 359 pp., £18.99, September 2020, 978 0 85752 690 8
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Mank’
Paul Taylor
The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment by Brian Cantwell Smith. MIT, 157 pp., £20, October 2019, 978 0 262 04304 5 Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis. Ballantine, 304 pp., £22.50, September 2019, 978 1 5247 4825 8 The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie. Penguin, 418 pp., £10.99, May 2019, 978 0 14 198241 0
Nathan Thrall
The Separate Regimes Delusion
Long Ling
Diary: At the Temple
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