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Vol. 45 No. 15 · 27 July 2023
James Lasdun
The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille. Farrar, Straus, 418 pp., $30, June, 978 0 374 60039 6
Letters
James Grainger, David Lehmann, Amia Srinivasan, Bob Frishman, Benjamin Letzler, George Anderson, Ed Kiely, Lewis Pyenson, Robin Blake, Benjamin Ralph
John Burnside
Poem: ‘A False Awakening’
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Attack Warning Red! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall. Bodley Head, 246 pp., £22, April, 978 1 84792 621 0
Deborah Friedell
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage. Simon and Schuster, 837 pp., £35, March, 978 0 85720 105 8
James Butler
Short Cuts: Radiant Ambiguity
John Foot
Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family: The Amendolas in the Age of Totalitarianisms by Richard Bosworth. Cambridge, 262 pp., £29.99, February, 978 1 009 28017 4
Stephen Sedley
The Winding Stair by Jesse Norman. Biteback, 464 pp., £20, June, 978 1 78590 792 0
Jeremy Harding
House of Bondage by Ernest Cole. Aperture, 230 pp., £50, December 2022, 978 1 59711 533 9
Nicole Flattery
Mothercare: On Ambivalence and Obligation by Lynne Tillman. Peninsula, 149 pp., £10.99, March, 978 1 913512 27 9
Jenny Turner
The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Gini Alhadeff. And Other Stories, 93 pp., £10.99, May 2022, 978 1 913505 44 8
Mike Jay
Elixir: A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life by Theresa Levitt. Basic, 314 pp., £20, April, 978 1 3998 0324 3
Mary Wellesley
At the National Gallery: St Francis of Assisi
Michael Wood
Ennemonde by Jean Giono, translated by Bill Johnston. Archipelago, 171 pp., £12.99, September 2021, 978 1 953861 12 2 The Open Road by Jean Giono, translated by Paul Eprile. NYRB, 212 pp., £13.99, October 2021, 978 1 68137 510 6 A King Alone by Jean Giono, translated by Alyson Waters. NYRB, 155 pp., £14.99, June 2021, 978 1 68137 309 6
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘Ásta’s Song’
Owen Bennett-Jones
Anti-Anglicisation
David Priestland
The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance by Jamie Martin. Harvard, 345 pp., £34.95, June 2022, 978 0 674 97654 2
Mendez
Diary: Bingeing on ‘Drag Race’
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