Vol. 45 No. 2 · 19 January 2023

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Vol. 45 No. 2 · 19 January 2023

John Lahr

Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life by James Curtis. Knopf, 810 pp., £30, February 2022, 978 0 385 35421 9

Letters

Hana Loftus, Andrew Hobbs, Stephen Sedley, Peter Gillman, Paul Tindall, Andrew Gelman, Neal Ascherson, Stefan Collini, Anne Summers

Diane Williams

Story: ‘Fredella’

Catherine Nicholson

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell. Faber, 352 pp., £16.99, April 2022, 978 0 571 34591 5

Michael Wood

The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Mark Polizzotti. NYRB, 306 pp., £16.99, July 2022, 978 1 68137 650 9

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries 1918-38 edited by Simon Heffer. Hutchinson, 1024 pp., £35, March 2021, 978 1 78633 181 6
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries 1938-43 edited by Simon Heffer. Hutchinson, 1120 pp., £35, September 2021, 978 1 78633 182 3
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries 1943-57 edited by Simon Heffer. Hutchinson, 1168 pp., £35, September 2022, 978 1 5291 5172 5

Donald MacKenzie

Short Cuts: A Puff of Carbon Dioxide

Iain Sinclair

Negative Equivalent

Deborah Friedell

The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn Olmsted. Yale, 314 pp., £25, April 2022, 978 0 300 25642 0
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War by Deborah Cohen. William Collins, 427 pp., £10.99, March, 978 0 00 830590 1

Malin Hay

BookTok

Tom Stevenson

The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the Shadowy International Spy Network, through Its Targets, Traitors and Spies by Richard Kerbaj. John Blake, 416 pp., £25, September 2022, 978 1 78946 503 7
Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International Arena by Clinton Fernandes. Melbourne, 176 pp., £35.95, October 2022, 978 0 522 87926 1

Eleanor Nairne

At the Fondation Louis Vuitton: Joan Mitchell

John Whitfield

The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra. Columbia, 256 pp., £28, August 2022, 978 0 231 19781 6

Leah Broad

The Music of Frederick Delius: Style, Form and Ethos by Jeremy Dibble. Boydell, 564 pp., £40, June 2021, 978 1 78327 577 9

Karen Solie

Poem: ‘Caribou’

Sarah Resnick

Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey. Fitzcarraldo, 219 pp., £12.99, June 2022, 978 1 913097 66 0

Luke de Noronha

Diary: At the Deportation Tribunal

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