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Vol. 44 No. 11 · 9 June 2022
Madeleine Schwartz
‘You got up and you died’
Letters
Timothy Neat, Sue King-Smith, Chris Mullin, Colin Burrow, Samuel Corless, Temitope Fisayo, Anne Bottomley, Dana Josephson, Geoff Wichert
Miranda Carter
My Castaway This Week
Robin Bunce and Paul Field
Jubilee 1977
Jonathan Meades
The Palace Papers by Tina Brown. Century, 571 pp., £20, April, 978 1 5291 2470 5
William Davies
The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past by Mike Savage. Harvard, 422 pp., £28.95, May 2021, 978 0 674 98807 1 Colonialism and Modern Social Theory by Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood. Polity, 257 pp., £17.99, July 2021, 978 1 5095 4130 0 A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty. Harvard, 272 pp., £22.95, April, 978 0 674 27355 9
Frances Morgan
At Serpentine North: ‘Radio Ballads’
Colin Burrow
Here and There: Sites of Philosophy by Stanley Cavell, edited by Nancy Bauer, Alice Crary and Sandra Laugier. Harvard, 326 pp., £23.95, May, 978 0 674 27048 0
Michael Ondaatje
Poem: ‘The Leg Glance’
Peter Howarth
How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil. Pavilion, 52 pp., £9.99, March 2020, 978 1 78962 168 6
Hugh Pennington
Monkeypox
Jo Applin
The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago by Judy Chicago. Thames and Hudson, 416 pp., £30, July 2021, 978 0 500 09438 9
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet by Bruce Gordon. Yale, 349 pp., £25, October 2021, 978 0 300 23597 5
Alexander Clapp
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower. Allen Lane, 574 pp., £30, November 2021, 978 0 241 00410 4
Jen Stout
Short Cuts: In Kharkiv
Dennis Duncan
The Themerson Archive Catalogue edited by Jasia Reichardt and Nick Wadley. MIT, three vols, 1000 pp., £190, November 2020, 978 1 9162474 1 3
Sarah Resnick
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan. Corsair, 334 pp., £20, April, 978 1 4721 5091 2
Rosina Buckland
On Kyōsai
J. Robert Lennon
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-20 by David Sedaris. Little, Brown, 566 pp., £10.99, June, 978 0 349 14190 9
Ben Crair
The Largest Avian Radiation: The Evolution of Perching Birds, or the Order Passeriformes by Jon Fjeldså, Les Christidis and Per G.P. Ericson. Lynx, 445 pp., €85, November 2020, 978 84 16728 33 6
Tom Shippey
The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend by Daniel Ogden. Oxford, 458 pp., £30, September 2021, 978 0 19 883018 4
Stephanie Burt
Diary: D&D
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