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Vol. 43 No. 19 · 7 October 2021
Letters
William Beaver, Joseph Saxby, Ian Beckwith, Dominic Carroll, John Foot, Timon Screech, Richard Fotheringham, Bill Williams, Joel McIlven, Simon Matthews
Amia Srinivasan
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love by Joanna Bourke. Reaktion, 184 pp., £18, October 2020, 978 1 78914 310 2
Colin Burrow
Along Heroic Lines by Christopher Ricks. Oxford, 330 pp., £20, April, 978 0 19 289465 6
Francis FitzGibbon
Short Cuts: Raab’s British Rights
Thomas Jones
Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry by Robert Kanigel. Knopf, 320 pp., £28.95, April 2021, 978 0 525 52094 8
Miriam Dobson
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale. Fitzcarraldo, 500 pp., £14.99, February, 978 1 913097 53 0
Gaby Wood
At Tate Britain: Paula Rego
Mendez
Xstabeth by David Keenan. White Rabbit, 168 pp., £14.99, November 2020, 978 1 4746 1705 5 Monument Maker by David Keenan. White Rabbit, 808 pp., £25, August 2021, 978 1 4746 1709 3
Adam Shatz
The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright. Library of America, 250 pp., £19.99, April 2021, 978 1 59853 676 8
James Meek
On the Boil
Michael Wood
Les Soixante-Quinze Feuillets: Et autres manuscrits inédits by Marcel Proust, edited by Nathalie Mauriac Dyer. Gallimard, 384 pp., €21, April 2021, 978 2 07 293171 0
David A. Bell
Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in 18th-Century France by William H. Sewell Jr. Chicago, 412 pp., £28, April, 978 0 226 77046 8
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘Peacocks’
Christopher Tayler
Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Kurt Beals. Granta, 208 pp., £14.99, November 2020, 978 1 78378 609 1
John Whitfield
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie. Bodley Head, 368 pp., £18.99, July 2020, 978 1 84792 565 7
Caroline Campbell
Antonello da Messina edited by Caterina Cardona and Giovanni Carlo Federico Federico Villa. Palazzo Reale/Skira, 299 pp., £35, April 2019, 978 88 572 3898 2
Rosa Lyster
Diary: Louisiana Underwater
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