Vol. 45 No. 1 · 5 January 2023

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Cover Artist

Jon McNaught

Anne Enright

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Vintage, 240 pp., £9.99, February, 978 1 78487 644 9

Letters

Michael Thornley, Galen Strawson, Miranda Carter, Nicholas Murray, Sharon Footerman, Peter Rowland, Michael Jacobs, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry

Tom Crewe

Short Cuts: Dickens and Prince

James Meek

Underwater Living

Anna McGee

Panel Problems

Christopher Kelly

London in the Roman World by Dominic Perring. Oxford, 573 pp., £40, January, 978 0 19 978900 9

Maureen N. McLane

Poem: ‘Magpie’

Jenny Turner

‘Chéri’ and ‘The End of Chéri’ by Colette, translated by Paul Eprile. NYRB, 236 pp., £13.99, November, 978 1 68137 670 7
‘Chéri’ and ‘The End of Chéri’ by Colette, translated by Rachel Careau. Norton, 336 pp., £21.99, May, 978 1 324 05205 0

Paul Taylor

On ChatGPT

Mendez

George Michael: A Life by James Gavin. Abrams, 502 pp., £25, June 2023, 978 1 4197 4794 6
George Michael: Freedom Uncut directed by David Austin and George Michael.

Fraser MacDonald

Burning Questions

Tim Parks

The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, translated by Michael Moore. Modern Library, 663 pp., £24, September, 978 0 679 64356 2

Linda Colley

Convicts: A Global History by Clare Anderson. Cambridge, 476 pp., £26.99, January, 978 1 108 81494 2

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Fanny and Alexander’

Michael Dillon

The Great Dispossession: Uyghurs between Civilisations by Ildiko Bellér Hann and Chris Hann. Lit Verlag, 296 pp., £35, February, 978 3 643 91367 8
How I Survived a Chinese ‘Re-education’ Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story by Gulbahar Haitiwaji and Rozenn Morgat, translated by Edward Gauvin. Canbury, 250 pp., £18.99, February, 978 1 912454 90 7
The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s Modern-Day Concentration Camps by Sayragul Sauytbay and Alexandra Cavelius, translated by Caroline Waight. Scribe, 320 pp., £16.99, May 2021, 978 1 913348 60 1
In the Camps: Life in China’s High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler. Atlantic, 152 pp., £12.99, February, 978 1 83895 592 2

James Romm

At the British Library: Alexander the Great

Christian Lorentzen

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy. Picador, 381 pp., £20, October, 978 0 330 45742 2
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy. Picador, 190 pp., £20, December, 978 0 330 45744 6

Blake Morrison

Septology by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls. Fitzcarraldo, 825 pp., £16.99, November, 978 1 80427 006 6
Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls. Fitzcarraldo, 74 pp., £10.99, November, 978 1 80427 004 2

Alan Bennett

Diary: On failing to impress the queen

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