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Vol. 45 No. 6 · 16 March 2023
Letters
Frank Berman, Rob Close, William Guthrie, Hugh Pope, Richard Carter, Ian Ellison, J.P. Quethiock, Robin Kinross, Sophie McKeand, Alan Harding
Nicholas Spice
Tár directed by Todd Field. Richard Wagner’s Essays on Conducting: A New Translation with Critical Commentary by Chris Walton. Rochester, 306 pp., £26.99, February 2021, 978 1 64825 012 5 In Good Hands: The Making of a Modern Conductor by Alice Farnham. Faber, 298 pp., £16.99, January 2023, 978 0 571 37050 4
Peter Geoghegan
Short Cuts: Libel Tourism
John Lanchester
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller. Simon and Schuster, 431 pp., £20, October 2022, 978 1 3985 0409 7
Patrick McGuinness
Poem: ‘Landline’
Hannah Rose Woods
Doggy People: The Victorians Who Made the Modern Dog by Michael Worboys. Manchester, 312 pp., £20, February, 978 1 5261 6772 9
Clair Wills
Quickening, or How to Plot an Abortion
Kamran Javadizadeh
On Diane Seuss
Fraser MacDonald
In Time of Schism
John-Paul Stonard
At Thaddaeus Ropac: Joseph Beuys
Ian Penman
Late Fragments: ‘Flares’, ‘My Heart Laid Bare’, Prose Poems, ‘Belgium Disrobed’ by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Richard Sieburth. Yale, 427 pp., £16.99, March, 978 0 300 27049 5
Adam Thirlwell
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell. Granta, 725 pp., £18.99, October 2022, 978 1 78378 673 2
Jo Applin
Hilma af Klint: The Complete Catalogue Raisonné edited by Kurt Almqvist and Daniel Birnbaum. Stolpe, 1569 pp., £250, November 2022, 978 91 985236 6 9 Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss, translated by Anne Posten. Chicago, 448 pp., £28, October 2022, 978 0 226 68976 0
Tom Shippey
Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia by Levi Roach. John Murray, 301 pp., £12.99, March, 978 1 5293 0032 1 The Normans: Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th-Century Europe by Judith Green. Yale, 351 pp., £11.99, February, 978 0 300 27037 2
Jane Miller
Desert Hours
Ben Jackson
Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain by Amy Edwards. California, 364 pp., £25, June 2022, 978 0 520 38546 7
Lorna Finlayson
Diary: Everyone Hates Marking
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