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Vol. 45 No. 10 · 18 May 2023
Rory Scothorne
Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945-79 by Malcolm Petrie. Edinburgh, 218 pp., £85, October 2022, 978 1 4744 5698 2
Letters
Bill Lancaster, Agnieszka Hodgson, John Bothwell, Harry Watson, Rob Wills, John Clegg, Liz Heron, Bill Hayton, Craig Westwood
Erin Maglaque
On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant. Duke, 238 pp., £21.99, September 2022, 978 1 4780 1845 2
William Davies
A Fan’s Life: The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat by Paul Campos. Chicago, 176 pp., £15, September 2022, 978 0 226 82348 5
Nicholas Penny
At the V&A: Donatello
Jonathan Parry
Life on Sark
Maureen N. McLane
Poem: ‘From a Book of Hours’
Alex de Waal
The Revolution No One Wanted
Malcolm Gaskill
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock. Weidenfeld, 302 pp., £22, January, 978 1 4746 1690 4
Tobias Gregory
Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art by Philip Hardie. Princeton, 353 pp., £38, April 2022, 978 0 691 19786 9
Chris Armstrong
Short Cuts: High Seas Fishing
Claire Hall
Anaximander and the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli, translated by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Allen Lane, 209 pp., £16.99, February, 978 0 241 63504 9
Michael Wood
At the Movies: Éric Rohmer
Julian Bell
Vermeer Rijksmuseum, until 4 June 2023
Rosemary Hill
Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists by Laura Freeman. Cape, 377 pp., £30, May, 978 1 78733 190 7
Adam Mars-Jones
James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer by Michael Snyder. Oxford, 444 pp., £27, January, 978 0 19 760972 9
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘Snowdrops’
Alexandra Reza
The Wind Whistling in the Cranes by Lídia Jorge, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott. Liveright, 511 pp., £19.99, March 2022, 978 1 63149 759 9
Francis Gooding
Monumental Guns
Toby Green
Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century by José Lingna Nafafé. Cambridge, 468 pp., £47.99, August 2022, 978 1 108 97419 6
Hadeel Assali
Diary: Palestinians in Paraguay
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