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Vol. 46 No. 9 · 9 May 2024
Rosemary Hill
Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence by Avril Horner. Manchester, 347 pp., £30, March, 978 1 5261 7374 4
Letters
Sarah Hutton, Sophie Smith, Norma Clarke, Hayden Pelliccia, Stephen Sedley, Barret Reiter, Allen Schill, Mary Adams
James Meek
Short Cuts: Thames Water
Fara Dabhoiwala
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann. Simon & Schuster, 329 pp., £10.99, January, 978 1 4711 8370 6
Sean Jacobs
Last Day in Lagos by Marilyn Nance, edited by Oluremi C. Onabanjo. Fourthwall, 299 pp., £37.50, October 2022, 978 0 9947009 9 5
Francis Gooding
At the Pompidou-Metz: ‘Lacan: L’Exposition’
Marion Turner
Fixers: Agency, Translation and the Early Global History of Literature by Zrinka Stahuljak. Chicago, 345 pp., £85, February, 978 0 226 83039 1
Azadeh Moaveni
What They Did to Our Women
Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death and Medicine in Stalin’s Labour Camps by Dan Healey. Yale, 336 pp., £30, February, 978 0 300 18713 7
Laleh Khalili
Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquillity and Ecocide by Grégory Salle. Polity, 122 pp., £12.99, January, 978 1 5095 5995 4
Sam Riviere
Poem: ‘Waters of Leith’
Malcolm Gaskill
They Flew: A History of the Impossible by Carlos Eire. Yale, 492 pp., £30, November 2023, 978 0 300 25980 3 Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton. Allen Lane, 289 pp., £30, January, 978 1 84614 363 2
Stefanos Geroulanos
At the Musée de l’Homme: ‘Prehistomania’
Sarah Resnick
Parasol against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi. Faber, 256 pp., £16.99, February, 978 0 571 36662 0
Michael Wood
The Cinema House and the World: The ‘Cahiers du Cinéma’ Years, 1962-81 by Serge Daney, translated by Christine Pichini. Semiotext(e), 600 pp., £28, September 2022, 978 1 63590 161 0 Footlights: Critical Notebook 1970-82 by Serge Daney, translated by Nicholas Elliott. Semiotext(e), 212 pp., £16.99, December 2023, 978 1 63590 198 6 Reading with Jean-Luc Godard edited by Timothy Barnard and Kevin J. Hayes. Caboose, 423 pp., £35, November 2023, 978 1 927852 46 0
David Trotter
Emily Brontë: Selected Writings edited by Francis O’Gorman. Oxford, 496 pp., £95, December 2023, 978 0 19 886816 3
John Lahr
August Wilson: A Life by Patti Hartigan. Simon and Schuster, 531 pp., £30, August 2023, 978 1 5011 8066 8
Julian Barnes
Diary: Art and Memory
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