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Vol. 43 No. 6 · 18 March 2021
Letters
Peter Dews, Amanda Leach, David Elstein, James Fanning, Liz Davies, Oliver Soden, Scott Herrick, Rhys Crilley, Ian Lee, Martin Westlake
Jonathan Parry
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett. Princeton, 525 pp., £30, October 2020, 978 0 691 17410 5
Clair Wills
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane. NYRB, 291 pp., £12, May, 978 1 68137 529 8
Thomas Meaney
Singapore: A Modern History by Michael Barr. Bloomsbury, 296 pp., £17.99, December 2020, 978 1 350 18566 1
Richard Taws
At the Musée des arts et métiers: Madame de Genlis’s Models
Josephine Quinn
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin. Norton, 254 pp., £19.99, July 2020, 978 0 393 63569 0
Malcolm Gaskill
The Puritans: A Transatlantic History by David D. Hall. Princeton, 517 pp., £20, May 2021, 978 0 691 20337 9 The Journey to the Mayflower: God’s Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom by Stephen Tomkins. Hodder, 372 pp., £12.99, February 2021, 978 1 4736 4911 8
Niela Orr
Brand New Day
Laleh Khalili
The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century by Jonathan E. Hillman. Yale, 294 pp., £20, October 2020, 978 0 300 24458 8
Mary Hannity
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V. Carby. Verso, 416 pp., £20, September 2019, 978 1 78873 509 4
Blake Morrison
The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne. Hogarth, 304 pp., £16.99, August 2020, 978 1 78109 078 7
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The United States v. Billie Holiday’
Thomas Jones
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Faber, 307 pp., £20, March, 978 0 571 36487 9
Mouin Rabbani
Short Cuts: Medical Apartheid
David Trotter
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form by Sianne Ngai. Harvard, 401 pp., £28.95, June 2020, 978 0 674 98454 7
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘To 2040’
Ange Mlinko
Collected Poems: 1946-2016 by Harry Mathews. Sand Paper Press, 288 pp., $28, February 2020, 978 0 9843312 8 4
Tim Parks
Telephone Tales by Gianni Rodari, translated by Antony Shugaar. Enchanted Lion, $27.95, September 2020, 978 1 59270 284 8
Arianne Shahvisi
Diary: Life in a Tinderbox
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