Vol. 43 No. 16 · 12 August 2021

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Vol. 43 No. 16 · 12 August 2021

David Runciman

Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency by Michael Wolff

Letters

David West, Lauro Martines, Penelope Farmer, Chris Mullin, Stephen Potter, Gene Feder, Peter Baker, Finnian Brewer, Matthew Barr, John Bailey, Frances Thomas

Patricia Lockwood

Bear by Marian Engel

Josephine Quinn

At the Soane Museum: ‘The Romance of Ruins’

Andrew O’Hagan

The Bench by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, illustrated by Christian Robinson
Her Heart for a Compass by Sarah, Duchess of York

Neal Ascherson

Culloden: Battle & Aftermath by Paul O’Keeffe

Lidija Haas

At MoMA PS1: Niki de Saint Phalle

Charles Glass

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War – A Tragedy in Three Acts by Scott Anderson

Adewale Maja-Pearce

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution by Dan Hicks
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips

Michael Wood

At the Movies: Bette Davis

Colm Tóibín

Pessoa: An Experimental Life by Richard Zenith

Tom Crewe

Short Cuts: Found Objects

Clair Wills

Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett

David Trotter

Selected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen, edited by Tessa Hadley
The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen
Friends and Relations by Elizabeth Bowen

Julia Bryan-Wilson

On Diego Rivera

Jon Day

The Russian Affair: The True Story of the Couple who Uncovered the Greatest Sporting Scandal by David Walsh
The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Russia’s Secret Doping Empire by Grigory Rodchenkov

Michael Kulikowski

The Selected Letters of Cassiodorus: A Sixth-Century Sourcebook translated and edited by M. Shane Bjornlie

Ange Mlinko

Poem: ‘Moth Orchid’

Lydia Davis

One French City

Sophie Smith

Diary: A Free Speech Agenda

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