Vol. 43 No. 17 · 9 September 2021

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Vol. 43 No. 17 · 9 September 2021

Thomas Meaney

Like Ordering Pizza

Letters

Michael Howlett, Paul Griseri, Charles Seluzicki, Colin Munro, Seán Damer, Barbara Taylor, Inigo Thomas, Peter Fox, Paul Flewers, Angela Wheeler and Katherine Davis, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Raymond Rogers, Kirsty Gunn, Andrew Wilton, Tom Farrell, Peter Mackridge, J.R.S. Davies

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘Translation Rain’

Andrew Cockburn

The Silent Guns of Two Octobers: Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game by Theodore Voorhees
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy

Eric Foner

The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City’s Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth

Rosemary Hill

At the Garden Museum: Constance Spry

Priya Satia

Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism by Dinyar Patel

Marina Warner

Black Teacher by Beryl Gilroy

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite

Anne & Betty: United by the Struggle by Anne Scargill and Betty Cook
Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 20th Century: Hannah’s Daughter by Margaret Hedley
Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialisation in Postwar Scotland by Ewan Gibbs
Scottish Coal Miners in the 20th Century by Jim Phillips
The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain by Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson

Anne Wagner

At the Sainsbury Centre: Bill​ Brandt|Henry Moore

Seamus Perry

Burning Man: The Ascent of D.H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson

Daniel Soar

The Sixth Taste

Terry Eagleton

The Benjamin Files by Fredric Jameson

A.E. Stallings

Poem: ‘Ghazal of the Fiftieth Danaid’

Blake Morrison

After Absalon by Simon Okotie

Nicole Flattery

My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley

Malcolm Gaskill

Short Cuts: Charity Refused

Jan-Werner Müller

Prussian Disneyland

Azadeh Moaveni

The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art by Donna Stein
Epic Iran  V&A

Thomas Keymer

The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph Hone

Ben Jackson

Diary: Watch the World Burn

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