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Vol. 43 No. 24 · 16 December 2021
Letters
Barbara Penner, David Bell, Kirsty Entwistle, Bernadette Wren, Mark Leopold, Ann Stephen, Noel Hess, Martin Shaw, Daniel Berg, Jerry Ross
Julian Barnes
Flaubert at Two Hundred
John Lanchester
Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic by Rachel Clarke. Abacus, 228 pp., £9.99, September 2021, 978 0 349 14456 6 Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy by Adam Tooze. Allen Lane, 354 pp., £25, September 2021, 978 0 241 48587 3 Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott. Mudlark, 432 pp., £20, March 2021, 978 0 00 843052 8 Covid by Numbers: Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data by David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters. Pelican, 320 pp., £10.99, October 2021, 978 0 241 54773 1 The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality by Toby Green. Hurst, 294 pp., £14.99, April 2021, 978 1 78738 522 1
Abby Innes
Short Cuts: State Capture
Erin Maglaque
Antwerp: The Glory Years by Michael Pye. Allen Lane, 271 pp., £25, August 2021, 978 0 241 24321 3
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Dune’
Susannah Clapp
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee. Faber, 977 pp., £14.99, September 2021, 978 0 571 31444 7
Ferdinand Mount
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts. Allen Lane, 763 pp., £35, October, 978 0 241 41333 3
Leontia Flynn
Poem: ‘All of the People’
Matthew Bevis
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew by Julia Copus. Faber, 464 pp., £25, April 2021, 978 0 571 31353 2 Selected Poetry and Prose by Charlotte Mew, edited by Julia Copus. Faber, 176 pp., £14.99, October 2019, 978 0 571 31618 2
Emily LaBarge
At Dulwich: Helen Frankenthaler
Robert Crawford
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini. Canongate, 299 pp., £14.99, August, 978 1 83885 022 7
Rosemary Hill
Personal Pleasures: Essays on Enjoying Life by Rose Macaulay. Handheld Classics, 256 pp., £12.99, August 2021, 978 1 912766 50 5
Andrew O’Hagan
At the Panto
Emily Witt
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson. Jonathan Cape, 288 pp., £20, September 2021, 978 1 78733 269 0
Sarah Resnick
Something New under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman. Fourth Estate, 351 pp., £15, August 2021, 978 0 00 833911 1
Michael Chessum
In Chile
Mendez
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. Fleet, 320 pp., £16.99, September 2021, 978 0 7088 9944 1
Tom Stammers
Goya: A Portrait of the Artist by Janis Tomlinson. Princeton, 388 pp., £28, October 2020, 978 0 691 19204 8
Rupert Beale
On Omicron
Fara Dabhoiwala
Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain by Ross Carroll. Princeton, 255 pp., £28, April 2021, 978 0 691 18255 1
Eyal Weizman
Tunnel Vision
Tom Crewe
Diary: Wrestling Days
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