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Vol. 45 No. 8 · 13 April 2023
Letters
Gavin Francis, Marge Berer, Mary E. Carter, John Mullen, Tim Clarke, Tim Cundy, Allen Schill, Robin Blake, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Stephen Bayley
Anthony Grafton
Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America by Denise Gigante. Yale, 378 pp., £25, January 2023, 978 0 300 24848 7
James Meek
‘That’s my tank on fire’
Tom Crewe
On the Shelf
Barbara Newman
Women and the Crusades by Helen J. Nicholson. Oxford, 287 pp., £25, February, 978 0 19 880672 1
Miranda Carter
‘The King Must Die’ and ‘The Bull from the Sea’ by Mary Renault. Everyman, 632 pp., £16.99, October 2022, 978 1 84159 409 5
Ben Ehrenreich
Short Cuts: In Melilla
Toril Moi
The Easy Life by Marguerite Duras, translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan. Bloomsbury, 208 pp., £12.99, December 2022, 978 1 5266 4865 5
David Harsent
Poem: ‘From ‘Stones’’
Leo Robson
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon. Picador, 336 pp., £18.99, February, 978 0 330 51332 6
Tom Johnson
Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea by David Cressy. Oxford, 313 pp., £30, September 2022, 978 0 19 286339 3
Stephen Sedley
Against Constitutionalism by Martin Loughlin. Harvard, 258 pp., £34.95, May 2022, 978 0 674 26802 9
Geoff Mann
A Fiscal and Monetary History of the United States, 1961-2021 by Alan Blinder. Princeton, 432 pp., £35, October 2022, 978 0 691 23838 8
Lucie Elven
At Tate Modern: Cecilia Vicuña
David Trotter
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges by Stuart Klawans. Columbia, 366 pp., £22, January, 978 0 231 20729 4
Paul Muldoon
Poem: ‘Welcome to the Irish Alps’
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State by Gareth Millward. Oxford, 230 pp., £30, September 2022, 978 0 19 286574 8
Jonathan Meades
Iconicon: A Journey around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain by John Grindrod. Faber, 478 pp., £10.99, March, 978 0 571 34814 5
Paul Theroux
Diary: Out to Lunch
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