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Vol. 44 No. 7 · 7 April 2022
Tom Stevenson
Things fall from the sky
Letters
David McDowall, Christopher Hilliard, Nicolas Barker, Ben Bethell, Ruth Wilson, Andy Connell, Martin Rose, Brandon Green, David Mills, Ian Britain
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 by Richard King. Faber, 526 pp., £25, February, 978 0 571 29564 7
Frances Webber
Short Cuts: Destroying the Asylum System
Julian Barnes
Lartigue: The Boy and the Belle Époque by Louise Baring. Thames and Hudson, 192 pp., £28, April 2020, 978 0 500 02130 9 Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of Happiness by Denis Curti, Marion Perceval and Charles-Antoine Revol. Marsilio, 208 pp., £40, July 2020, 978 88 297 0527 6
Rosemary Hill
Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age by Daisy Hay. Chatto, 518 pp., £25, April 2022, 978 1 78474 018 4
Nicholas Penny
At the Ikon Gallery: Carlo Crivelli
Matthew Karp
Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen Guelzo. Knopf, 585 pp., $27.99, September 2021, 978 1 101 94622 0
Gavin Francis
On Antibiotic Resistance
Kevin Okoth
Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson. Penguin, 436 pp., £12.99, February 2021, 978 0 241 51417 7 Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition by Joshua Myers. Polity, 276 pp., £17.99, September 2021, 978 1 5095 3792 1
Adam Mars-Jones
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West. Pushkin, 192 pp., £8.99, May 2021, 978 1 78227 614 2
Gazelle Mba
On Roy DeCarava
Lydia H. Liu
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu. Allen Lane, 314 pp., £20, January, 978 0 241 29585 4
John Gallagher
Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective by Carlo Ginzburg and Bruce Lincoln. Chicago, 289 pp., £20, March 2020, 978 0 226 67441 4
Maureen N. McLane
Poem: ‘Season’
Michael Hofmann
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie, translated by James Kirkup. Penguin, 328 pp., £9.99, February, 978 0 241 55453 1
Chris Mullin
Diary: In Court, Again
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