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Vol. 45 No. 12 · 15 June 2023
Letters
Michael Crabtree, Peter Stott, Kieran Setiya, David Book, Carol Sklenicka, Judith Levine, Hilary Kitchin, Ormond Simpson
John Lahr
Hollywood: The Oral History edited by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson. Faber, 739 pp., £25, November 2022, 978 0 571 36694 1
James Butler
The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction by Italo Calvino, translated by Ann Goldstein. Penguin, 384 pp., £10.99, January, 978 0 14 139492 3
Philip McDaragh
Six Poems
Dani Garavelli
All in Slow Motion
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘One Fine Morning’
Tom Johnson
Tudor Children by Nicholas Orme. Yale, 265 pp., £20, February, 978 0 300 26796 9
Ferdinand Mount
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the 18th-Century Bank of England by Anne Murphy. Princeton, 275 pp., £30, May, 978 0 691 19474 5
Kevin Okoth
White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa by Susan Williams. Hurst, 651 pp., £25, September 2021, 978 1 78738 555 9 Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-75 by Natalia Telepneva. North Carolina, 302 pp., £37.95, June, 978 1 4696 6586 3
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: The Rich List
Fraser MacDonald
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx. Fourth Estate, 196 pp., £16.99, September 2022, 978 0 00 853439 4
Rosemary Hill
At Kettle’s Yard: Lucie Rie
Sarah Resnick
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton. Cape, 432 pp., £25, September 2022, 978 1 78733 013 9
Josie Mitchell
Mrs S by K Patrick. Fourth Estate, 296 pp., £16.99, June, 978 0 00 856099 7
Amelia Loulli
Poem: ‘Songs of Praise II’
Robert Crawford
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture by Clare Bucknell. Head of Zeus, 344 pp., £27.99, February, 978 1 80024 144 2
Zain Samir
Diary: After the Earthquake
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