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Vol. 44 No. 2 · 27 January 2022
Letters
Nick Moss, John Perry, Anthony King, Frank Tangherlini, Jay Lyon, Julia Copus, Dany Nobus, Martin Brayne, Chris Edwards
Jonathan Parry
Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and Its Empire, 1600-1850 by Mark Knights. Oxford, 488 pp., £35, December 2021, 978 0 19 879624 4
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’
Wolfgang Streeck
Technopopulism: The New Logic of Democratic Politics by Christopher J. Bickerton and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti. Oxford, 256 pp., £75, February 2021, 978 0 19 880776 6
David Wheatley
On Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
James Lasdun
Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars That Upended an Auto Empire by Hans Greimel and William Sposato. Harvard, 368 pp., £22, June 2021, 978 1 64782 047 3
Rivka Galchen
Stuck: How Vaccine Rumours Start – and Why They Don’t Go Away by Heidi Larson. Oxford, 157 pp., £18.99, September 2020, 978 0 19 007724 2 Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement by Jonathan Berman. MIT, 277 pp., £25, September 2020, 978 0 262 53932 6
Adam Mars-Jones
The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish. Knopf, 464 pp., $28, September 2021, 978 1 5247 3232 5
Chris Lintott
Short Cuts: Born in Light
Marco Roth
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and the Lion of Jachin-Boaz by Russell Hoban. Penguin, 182 pp., £9.99, April 2021, 978 0 241 48571 2 Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban. Penguin, 193 pp., £9.99, April 2021, 978 0 241 48576 7 Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. Penguin, 252 pp., £9.99, April 2021, 978 0 241 48575 0
Moudhy Al-Rashid
The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies by Irving Finkel. Hodder, 344 pp., £25, November 2021, 978 1 5293 0326 1
Colm Tóibín
The Letters of John McGahern edited by Frank Shovlin. Faber, 851 pp., £30, September 2021, 978 0 571 32666 2
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘Pine Processionaries’
Conor Gearty
In the Shallow End
Rosa Lyster
At the V&A: Fabergé in London
Terry Eagleton
The Concept of the Social: Scepticism, Idleness and Utopia by Malcolm Bull. Verso, 243 pp., £16.99, October 2021, 978 1 84467 293 6
Erin Thompson
Iconoclasm by David Freedberg. Chicago, 332 pp., £32, June 2021, 978 0 226 44550 2
Nicholas Penny
At the Courtauld: Hanging Paintings
Stefan Collini
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin. Viking, 256 pp., £20, November 2021, 978 0 241 23997 1
Jonathan Beckman
The Life of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy by Jaynie Anderson. Officina Libraria, 271 pp., £29.95, November 2019, 978 88 99765 95 8
Helen Thaventhiran
Hooked: Art and Attachment by Rita Felski. Chicago, 199 pp., £18, October 2020, 978 0 226 72963 3
Fiona Benson
Poem: ‘Queen’s Women on the Naming Ceremony’
David Thomson
Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis and Los Angeles, California by Matthew Specktor. Tin House, 378 pp., $17.95, July 2021, 978 1 951142 62 9
Philip Terry
Diary: Scratched on a Stone
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