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Vol. 43 No. 11 · 3 June 2021
Thomas Nagel
Types of Intuition
Letters
Helen Pearce, Val Raworth, James Campbell, Chris Beausang, Kate Tranter, Cassandra Langer, Sarah Blair, Christopher Goulding, David Ritchie, Jim Holt, Peter Greenhill, Claire Lynn, Peter Warne, Ole Hansen
Rory Scothorne
Short Cuts: Not all Scots
Adam Shatz
Ghosts in the Land
James Butler
After Hartlepool
Chris Lintott
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life beyond Earth by Avi Loeb. John Murray, 222 pp., £20, February 2021, 978 1 5293 0482 4
Ange Mlinko
Poem: ‘The Mechanicals’
Joanne O’Leary
After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet by Julie Dobrow. Norton, 448 pp., £13.99, January 2020, 978 0 393 35749 3
Rye Dag Holmboe
In the Studio: Howard Hodgkin
James Lasdun
The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy by Victoria de Grazia. Harvard, 517 pp., £28.95, August 2020, 978 0 674 98639 8
Rosemary Hill
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery. William Collins, 512 pp., £9.99, October 2020, 978 0 00 832984 6
Christian Lorentzen
Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden. Gallery, 272 pp., £20, April, 978 1 3985 0719 7
Edward Luttwak
Goethe in China
Jonathan Parry
The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams by David S. Brown. Scribner, 464 pp., £21.20, November 2020, 978 1 9821 2823 4
Vidyan Ravinthiran
Poem: ‘The Annupoorunyamal’
Jordan Sand
Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Woman’s Life in 19th-Century Japan by Amy Stanley. Chatto, 352 pp., £9.99, July 2020, 978 1 78470 230 4 Tokyo before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo by Timon Screech. Reaktion, 240 pp., £25, September 2020, 978 1 78914 233 4
Krithika Varagur
The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed. Hurst, 394 pp., £20, December 2020, 978 1 78738 379 1
J. Robert Lennon
Second Place by Rachel Cusk. Faber, 224 pp., £14.99, May, 978 0 571 36629 3
Nicole Flattery
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favela Goldman. Penguin, 384 pp., £9.99, January, 978 0 241 45757 3 The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally. Penguin, 144 pp., £8.99, January, 978 0 241 39191 4
Jérôme Tubiana
Diary: In Darfur
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