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Vol. 43 No. 21 · 4 November 2021
Letters
Stephen Halliwell, Emily Wilson, Malcolm Gaskill, Liam Shaw, Mathias Winther Madsen, Ian Birchall, Charles Cooper, David Ganz
Charles Nicholl
Fetch the Chopping Knife
Bee Wilson
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice by Julia Laite. Profile, 410 pp., £16.99, April, 978 1 78816 442 9
E. Tammy Kim
Short Cuts: Asian America
Adam Smyth
Book Ownership in Stuart England by David Pearson. Oxford, 352 pp., £69.99, January, 978 0 19 887012 8
Maureen N. McLane
Poem: ‘Weeds’
Jenny Turner
Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill. Reaktion, 232 pp., £11.99, August 2021, 978 1 78914 379 9
Andrew O’Hagan
At the Hunterian: Joan Eardley gets her due
Jo Applin
Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader edited by Maura Reilly. Thames and Hudson, 472 pp., £28, March 2020, 978 0 500 29555 7 Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin. Thames and Hudson, 111 pp., £9.99, January, 978 0 500 02384 6
Sigrid Nunez
Story: ‘It Will Come Back to You’
Adam Mars-Jones
The Promise by Damon Galgut. Chatto, 293 pp., £16.99, June, 978 1 78474 406 9
Edan Ring
On Pegasus
Steven Shapin
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States by Alex Wellerstein. Chicago, 549 pp., £28, April, 978 0 226 02038 9
Diane Williams
Story: ‘Mother of Nature’
Tareq Baconi
The Pink Line: The World’s Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser. Profile, 525 pp., £10.99, July 2020, 978 1 78816 514 3 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa’ed Atshan. Stanford, 274 pp., £20.99, May 2020, 978 1 5036 1239 6
Blake Morrison
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam. Granta, 290 pp., £14.99, July, 978 1 78378 694 7
Pooja Bhatia
Diary: Media Theranos
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