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Vol. 44 No. 1 · 6 January 2022
Jenny Turner
Inside the Sausage Factory
Letters
Judith Hendra, Nairi Petrossian, Michael Cox, Esme Wren, Michael Holzman, Rob Waters, Stephen Edgar, Paul Devine, Michael Autrey, Christopher Whittick, Charles Nicholl, Brendan Carroll
Ian Penman
Why Solange Matters by Stephanie Phillips. Faber, 256 pp., £9.99, May 2021, 978 0 571 36898 3
Christian Lorentzen
The Family Biden
Malcolm Gaskill
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre. Viking, 377 pp., £25, September 2021, 978 0 241 40850 6
James Meek
Did I invade? Do you exist?
Mary Wellesley
At the National Gallery: Dürer’s Journeys
Jessie Childs
Devil-Land: England under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson. Allen Lane, 682 pp., £35, September 2021, 978 0 241 28581 7
Adam Phillips
On Giving Up
Francesca Wade
At the Swiss Institute: Rosemary Mayer
Tim Parks
Honour and the Sword: The Culture of Duelling by Joseph Farrell. Signal, 327 pp., £20, June, 978 1 909930 94 0
Michael Wood
Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald by Carole Angier. Bloomsbury, 617 pp., £30, August 2021, 978 1 5266 3479 5
Anne Carson
Story: ‘Four Talks’
Patricia Lockwood
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Martin Aitken. Harvill Secker, 666 pp., £20, September 2021, 978 1 910701 71 3
Adewale Maja-Pearce
Short Cuts: Nigerian Oil
Colin Kidd
A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society and the Revolution of American Conservatism by Edward H. Miller. Chicago, 456 pp., £24, January, 978 0 226 44886 2
Jonathan Meades
The Buildings of England: Wiltshire by Julian Orbach, Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry. Yale, 828 pp., £45, June 2021, 978 0 300 25120 3
Andrew Durbin
At the Gay Bar
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Fragonard: Painting Out of Time by Satish Padiyar. Reaktion, 284 pp., £35, September 2020, 978 1 78914 209 9
Nicole Flattery
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura. Cape, 240 pp., £14.99, August 2021, 978 1 78733 200 3
Alan Bennett
Diary: Selling my hair on eBay
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