Vol. 43 No. 12 · 17 June 2021

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Anne Rothenstein

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Vol. 43 No. 12 · 17 June 2021

Ian Penman

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
The Beatles and Sixties Britain by Marcus Collins
The Beatles in Context edited by Kenneth Womack

Letters

Susie Thomas, Julia Prewitt Brown, Francis Reavley, Gregory Klyve, Kieran Setiya, James Russell, Benjamin Midler, Roger Berger, Norman Dombey, Brian Reffin Smith

Marianne Boruch

Poem: ‘Dear Thus and So. Dear Eventually’

Tessa Hadley

The True History of the First Mrs Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson

Tariq Ali

Muhammad by Maxime Rodinson, translated by Anne Carter

William Davies

Short Cuts: Friend or Threat

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

Each rock has two names

Francesca Wade

At the Whitechapel: Eileen Agar

James Romm

Rome Is Burning by Anthony Barrett

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Mandabi’

Alex de Waal

Steal, Burn, Rape, Kill

Niamh Gallagher

The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend

Lucie Elven

I Used to Be Charming by Eve Babitz

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘Cage’

Stuart Jeffries

Correspondence 1923-66: Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer edited by Wolfgang Schopf, translated by Susan Reynolds and Michael Winkler
Kracauer: A Biography by Jörg Später, translated by Daniel Steuer

Colin Burrow

On Fiona Benson

Adam Mars-Jones

Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

Edmund Gordon

Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor

Freddie Mason

At the Hayward: Matthew​ Barney

Sharon Marcus

Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion
Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from 19th-Century France by Rachel Mesch

Patrick McGuinness

Diary: Oxford by Train

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