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Vol. 44 No. 24 · 15 December 2022
Letters
Mike Dodds, Howard Medwell, Sue Lieberman, Dennis Lack, Irene Makaryk, Ed McNally, Allen Schill, C.J. Woods, Dan Stowell, Rob Wills
Colin Burrow
Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl, an Unofficial Biography by Matthew Dennison. Head of Zeus, 264 pp., £20, August 2022, 978 1 78854 941 7
Jeremy Harding
On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo by Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz, translated by Julie Rose. Polity, 80 pp., £9.99, November 2022, 978 1 5095 5506 2 After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis by Bruno Latour, translated by Julie Rose. Polity, 180 pp., £14.99, September 2021, 978 1 5095 5002 9
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: I Think We’re Alone Now
Laleh Khalili
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe. Bodley Head, 354 pp., £20, October 2022, 978 1 84792 625 8
Michael Hofmann
Poem: ‘For Adam Zagajewski’
Brigid von Preussen
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt. Allen Lane, 352 pp., £25, September 2021, 978 0 241 28789 7
David Trotter
'The Last Samurai’ Reread by Lee Konstantinou. Columbia, 120 pp., £14.99, November 2022, 978 0 231 18583 7 The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt. New Directions, 69 pp., £12.99, September 2022, 978 0 8112 3007 0
Bee Wilson
The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori by Cristina de Stefano, translated by Gregory Conti. Other Press, 368 pp., £27.99, May 2022, 978 1 63542 084 5
Neal Ascherson
Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora MacDonald by Flora Fraser. Bloomsbury, 285 pp., £25, September 2022, 978 1 4088 7982 5
Peter Howarth
The Sins of G.K. Chesterton by Richard Ingrams. Harbour, 292 pp., £20, August 2021, 978 1 905128 33 4
Elisa Tamarkin
At the National Gallery: Winslow Homer
Peter Phillips
The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603) by Owen Rees. Cambridge, 262 pp., £22.99, September 2021, 978 1 107 67621 3
Sharon Olds
Poem: ‘My Head and My Mother’s Breast in Quarantine Together’
Helen Pfeifer
As Night Falls: 18th-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark by Avner Wishnitzer. Cambridge, 376 pp., £29.99, July 2021, 978 1 108 83214 4
Lili Owen Rowlands
The Works of Guillaume Dustan, Vol. 1: ‘In My Room’, ‘I’m Going Out Tonight’, ‘Stronger Than Me’ edited by Thomas Clerc, translated by Daniel Maroun. Semiotext(e), 383 pp., £14.99, June 2021, 978 1 63590 142 9
Erin Maglaque
Dante’s Little Book
Marina Warner
Diary: Carmen Callil’s Causes
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