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Vol. 45 No. 24 · 14 December 2023
Letters
Mark Mildred, Samrat Prasai, David Elstein, Satvinder Juss, Tom May, Jason Fowler, Margo Miller, Ned Hercock, Roderick J. Barman
Julian Barnes
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschläger. Allen Lane, 545 pp., £35, October 2023, 978 0 241 18830 9
Erin Maglaque
Aldus Manutius: The Invention of the Publisher by Oren Margolis. Reaktion, 206 pp., £18, October 2023, 978 1 78914 779 7
Colin Burrow
The Fraud by Zadie Smith. Hamish Hamilton, 464 pp., £20, September, 978 0 241 33699 1
Christopher L. Brown
Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams. Penguin, 304 pp., £9.99, February 2022, 978 0 241 54816 5
Susannah Clapp
On Yevonde
Neal Ascherson
Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-90 by Katja Hoyer. Allen Lane, 475 pp., £25, April 2023, 978 0 241 55378 7 Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 by Frank Trentmann. Allen Lane, 837 pp., £40, November 2023, 978 0 241 30349 8
Tom Hickman
Rwanda Redux
Madeleine Schwartz
Brutalist Paris by Nigel Green and Robin Wilson. Blue Crow, 192 pp., £24, February, 978 1 912018 73 4 Chêne Pointu, Clichy-sous-Bois by Éric Reinhardt. EXB, 319 pp., €39, November, 978 2 36511 387 8
Fiona Benson
Poem: ‘Transformation: Galinthis’
Peter Phillips
The Pursuit of Musick: Musical Life in Original Writings and Art c.1200-1770 by Andrew Parrott. Taverner, 544 pp., £35, December 2022, 978 1 915229 54 0
John-Paul Stonard
At Piano Nobile: On R.B. Kitaj
John Kerrigan
Shakespeare on Consent by Amanda Bailey. Routledge, 197 pp., £17.99, March, 978 0 367 18453 7 Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook edited by Julia Reinhard Lupton and Donovan Sherman. Cambridge, 421 pp., £95, January, 978 1 108 84340 9 Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion by Bradley J. Irish. Bloomsbury, 270 pp., £75, March, 978 1 350 21398 2
Tony Wood
Short Cuts: Javier Milei’s Agenda
Kevin Okoth
The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Jordan Stump. Daunt, 160 pp., £9.99, April 2022, 978 1 914198 08 3 Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti. Daunt, 155 pp., £9.99, October, 978 1 914198 58 8
Emily Berry
On Mary Ruefle
Blake Morrison
This Other Eden by Paul Harding. Hutchinson Heinemann, 221 pp., £16.99, February 2023, 978 1 5291 5254 8
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Napoleon’
Alexander Bevilacqua
The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 by Marcy Norton. Harvard, 419 pp., £33.95, January, 978 0 674 73752 5 The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding and Race in the Renaissance by Mackenzie Cooley. Chicago, 353 pp., £30, October 2022, 978 0 226 82228 0
Stefan Collini
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Vol. 50, December 1875-February 1881 edited by Ian Campbell. Duke, 211 pp., $30, October 2022, 978 1 4780 2054 7
Rosemary Hill
Diary: Aboriginal Voices
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