Vol. 45 No. 16 · 10 August 2023

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Vol. 45 No. 16 · 10 August 2023

Letters

Craig Gibson, Paul Haslam, Brendan O’Leary, David Denby, David Saunders, Jane M. Card, Anthony Colman, Mike Gavin, David Black, Gareth Evans, Anna Rayne

Malcolm Bull

Gerhard Richter: Painting after the Subject of History by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. MIT, 661 pp., £40, September 2022, 978 0 262 54353 8

James Butler

Short Cuts: In Suburbia

James Meek

Every Field, Every Yard

Daniel Soar

Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman. And Other Stories, 108 pp., £11.99, February, 978 1 913505 61 5

Francis Gooding

On Richard Mosse

Tom Stevenson

And Then What? Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy by Catherine Ashton. Elliott and Thompson, 256 pp., £20, February 2023, 978 1 78396 634 9

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Barbie’

Thomas Jones

Sidney Reilly: Master Spy by Benny Morris. Yale, 190 pp., £16.99, January, 978 0 300 24826 5

Lucy Wooding

Henry VIII and the Merchants: The World of Stephen Vaughan by Susan Rose. Bloomsbury, 188 pp., £85, January, 978 1 350 12769 2

Randall Kennedy

The Race-Neutral Delusion

Abigail Green

Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions by Maurizio Isabella. Princeton, 685 pp., £35, May, 978 0 691 18170 7

Brian Dillon

At Wiels: Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Seamus Perry

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 480 pp., £16.99, October 2022, 978 0 241 58531 3
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 320 pp., £14.99, October 2022, 978 0 241 58529 0
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 336 pp., £14.99, October 2022, 978 0 241 58527 6
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 304 pp., £14.99, October 2022, 978 0 241 58528 3
Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 928 pp., £18.99, October 2022, 978 0 241 58532 0

Irina Dumitrescu

The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner. Princeton, 320 pp., £20, January, 978 0 691 20601 1
The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith. Hamish Hamilton, 109 pp., £7.99, November 2021, 978 0 241 47196 8
The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks. William Morrow, 541 pp., £9.99, March 2022, 978 0 06 314283 1

August Kleinzahler

Poem: ‘A History of Western Music: Chapter 57’

Ange Mlinko

Greek Lessons by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won. Hamish Hamilton, 146 pp., £16.99, April, 978 0 241 60027 6

Anne Enright

Diary: Spring Blossom

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