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Vol. 44 No. 5 · 10 March 2022
Stephen Sedley
A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England by Christopher Hilliard. Princeton, 320 pp., £28, September 2021, 978 0 691 19798 2
Letters
Mary Carter, Chris Moore, Michael Neill, Michael Rosen, Maurice West, Bernard Richards, Townson Cocke, Pamela Cox, John McGill
David Runciman
Short Cuts: Kaepernick Was Right
James Butler
The Penguin Book of Exorcisms edited by Joseph P. Laycock. Penguin, 336 pp., £12.99, September 2021, 978 0 14 313547 0
Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History by James G. Clark. Yale, 649 pp., £25, October 2021, 978 0 300 11572 7 Going to Church in Medieval England by Nicholas Orme. Yale, 483 pp., £20, July 2021, 978 0 300 25650 5
Ange Mlinko
Two Poems
Skye Arundhati Thomas
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro. Bloomsbury, 315 pp., £9.99, January, 978 1 4088 7676 3
Andrea Brady
Revolutionary Letters: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by Diane di Prima. City Lights, 213 pp., £13.99, September 2021, 978 0 9957162 6 1
Hal Foster
Poisoned Abstraction: Kurt Schwitters between Revolution and Exile by Graham Bader. Yale, 240 pp., £45, November 2021, 978 0 300 25708 3 Myself and My Aims: Writings on Art and Criticism by Kurt Schwitters, edited by Megan R. Luke, translated by Timothy Grundy. Chicago, 656 pp., £30, October 2020, 978 0 226 12939 6
Simon Reynolds
The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren: The Biography by Paul Gorman. Constable, 855 pp., £14.99, November 2021, 978 1 4721 2111 0
Bridget Alsdorf
At the Barnes: Suzanne Valadon
Christian Lorentzen
Fuccboi by Sean Thor Conroe. Wildfire, 341 pp., £16.99, January, 978 1 4722 9310 7
Diane Williams
Story: ‘Riviera’
Michael Ledger-Lomas
George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley. Chatto, 559 pp., £30, November 2021, 978 0 7011 8870 2 For King and Country: The British Monarchy and the First World War by Heather Jones. Cambridge, 576 pp., £29.99, September 2021, 978 1 108 42936 8
Simon Akam
The Habit of Excellence: Why British Army Leadership Works by Langley Sharp. Penguin, 320 pp., £20, October 2021, 978 0 241 50750 6
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘A History of Western Music: Chapter 60’
Susan McKay
Diary: In Portadown
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