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Vol. 46 No. 1 · 4 January 2024
James Meek
Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust and Lies that Broke Television by Peter Biskind. Allen Lane, 383 pp., £25, November, 978 0 241 44390 3
Letters
Robert Lethbridge, Emily Cox, Xanthe and Naomi Sylvester, Vassilis Serafimakis, David Kearns, Damian Grant, Bruce McClintock, David Bell, Graeme Pearson, Doris Tranter
Rory Scothorne
Short Cuts: Edinburgh’s Festivalisation
Pankaj Mishra
Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany by Esra Özyürek. Stanford, 264 pp., £25.99, March, 978 1 5036 3556 2 Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust by Andrew Port. Harvard, 352 pp., £30.95, May, 978 0 674 27522 5
Colin Kidd
America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life by Claire Rydell Arcenas. Chicago, 265 pp., $25, October, 978 0 226 82933 3
Maureen N. McLane
Poem: ‘Rocks’
Andrea Brady
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher. Farrar, Straus, 480 pp., £24, March 2023, 978 0 8090 9824 8
Deborah Friedell
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman. Vintage, 295 pp., £10.99, January, 978 1 5299 1834 2
Adam Mars-Jones
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner. Hamish Hamilton, 160 pp., £12.99, July, 978 0 241 63253 6
Edmund Gordon
Oil! by Upton Sinclair. Penguin, 572 pp., £15.99, January, 978 0 14 313744 3
Erin L. Thompson
Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology by Christopher Heaney. Oxford, 358 pp., £22.99, September, 978 0 19 754255 2
Lloyd de Beer
At the Cluny: ‘Voyage dans le cristal’
Jeremy Harding
Zombie v. Zombie
David Todd
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-89 by Robert Darnton. Allen Lane, 547 pp., £35, November, 978 0 7139 9656 2
Tom Shippey
Triumph and Illusion: The Hundred Years War V by Jonathan Sumption. Faber, 977 pp., £35, August, 978 0 571 27457 4
Diane Williams
Two Stories
Michael Wood
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, translated by James Grieve. NYRB, 450 pp., £16.99, June, 978 1 68137 629 5 The Swann Way by Marcel Proust, translated by Brian Nelson. Oxford, 430 pp., £9.99, September, 978 0 19 887152 1
Andrew O’Hagan
Diary: Stevenson in Edinburgh
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