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Vol. 44 No. 17 · 8 September 2022
Helen Thaventhiran
Eliot after ‘The Waste Land’ by Robert Crawford. Cape, 609 pp., £25, June, 978 0 224 09389 7
Letters
Mat Snow, Rob Wills, Roxana Waterson, Chris Chapman, Martin Spence, Michael Fort, Graham Robb, Michael Walling, Norbert Hirschhorn, Duncan Money, Ian Ferguson
Arianne Shahvisi
The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain by Gina Rippon. Vintage, 424 pp., £9.99, September 2020, 978 1 78470 681 4 The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Moalem. Penguin, 274 pp., £9.99, March 2021, 978 0 241 39689 6
Stefan Collini
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford. Allen Lane, 529 pp., £30, September 2022, 978 0 241 43432 1
Rosemary Hill
On Toy Theatres
Adam Mars-Jones
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart. Picador, 391 pp., £16.99, April, 978 1 5290 6876 4
Susannah Clapp
Small Things like These by Claire Keegan. Faber, 73 pp., £10, October 2021, 978 0 571 36868 6
Samuel Hanafin
Short Cuts: In Riga
Colin Burrow
The New Yale Book of Quotations edited by Fred R. Shapiro. Yale, 1136 pp., £35, October 2021, 978 0 300 20597 8
Stephanie Burt
On Natalie Shapero
Jonathan Parry
Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members’ Clubs by Seth Alexander Thévoz. Robinson, 367 pp., £25, July, 978 1 4721 4646 5
Neal Ascherson
Jozef Piłsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland by Joshua D. Zimmerman. Harvard, 623 pp., £31.95, June, 978 0 674 98427 1
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Bullet Train’
Daniel Trilling
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure by Menachem Kaiser. Scribe, 277 pp., £14.99, August 2021, 978 1 911617 49 5
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘Autobiography: The Later Years’
Tom Shippey
Crécy: Battle of Five Kings by Michael Livingston. Osprey, 303 pp., £20, June, 978 1 4728 4705 8
Tom Stevenson
The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans by David Bosco. Oxford, 320 pp., £22.99, April, 978 0 19 026564 9 Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order In World War Two by Paul Kennedy. Yale, 521 pp., £25, May, 978 0 300 21917 3
Emily LaBarge
At the Van Gogh Museum: ‘Colour as Language’
Lucie Elven
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère, translated by John Lambert. Jonathan Cape, 320 pp., £16.99, June, 978 1 78733 321 5
Jon Day
Diary: Hoardiculture
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