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Vol. 46 No. 16 · 15 August 2024
Colin Burrow
The Prefaces by Henry James, edited by Oliver Herford. Cambridge, 636 pp., £95, March, 978 1 107 00268 5
Letters
Tom Billington, Hilary Plass, Felice Picano, Peter Gillman, Murdo Ritchie, Benjamin Letzler, Michael Stanhope, Rob Wills, David Aneurin Morgan, Colin McArthur
Susannah Clapp
On Julia Margaret Cameron
James Butler
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson. Virago, 345 pp., £25, March, 978 0 349 01874 4
Peter Geoghegan
Labour and the Lobbyists
Jean McNicol
Different for Girls
Tom Hickman
Short Cuts: Outside Appointments
Josephine Quinn
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World by Colin Elliott. Princeton, 304 pp., £28, April, 978 0 691 21915 8
Liam Shaw
The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction by Gísli Pálsson, translated by Anna Yates. Princeton, 291 pp., £22, April, 978 0 691 23098 6
Anne Carson
Gloves on!
Ruby Hamilton
Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale. Daunt, 306 pp., £9.99, September 2023, 978 1 914198 60 1 A Helping Hand by Celia Dale. Daunt, 260 pp., £9.99, September 2022, 978 1 914198 33 5 A Spring of Love by Celia Dale. Daunt, 359 pp., £9.99, September, 978 1 914198 94 6
Cal Revely-Calder
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art by Orlando Whitfield. Profile, 323 pp., £20, May, 978 1 78816 995 0
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘The Zero Point’
Donald MacKenzie
Hey Big Spender
Kim Phillips-Fein
The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 by Luke A. Nichter. Yale, 370 pp., £35, October 2023, 978 0 300 25439 6
Catherine Hall
Colonial Countryside edited by Corinne Fowler and Jeremy Poynting. Peepal Tree, 278 pp., £25, July, 978 1 84523 566 6 Britain’s Slavery Debt: Reparations Now! by Michael Banner. Oxford, 172 pp., £14.99, April, 978 0 19 888944 1
Ian Penman
Travels over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life by Richard King. Faber, 296 pp., £30, April, 978 0 571 37966 8
Michael Hofmann
Poem: ‘Application for Pre-Settled Status’
Tim Parks
Godwin by Joseph O’Neill. Fourth Estate, 277 pp., £16.99, June, 978 0 00 828404 6
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Crossing’
Wolfgang Streeck
Verfassungsschutz: Wie der Geheimdienst Politik macht by Ronen Steinke. Berlin Verlag, 221 pp., €24, June 2023, 978 3 8270 1471 9
Tom Johnson
Diary: Strange Visitations
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