Vol. 44 No. 5 · 10 March 2022

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Cover Artist

Alexander Gorlizki

Stephen Sedley

A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England by Christopher Hilliard. Princeton, 320 pp., £28, September 2021, 978 0 691 19798 2

Letters

Mary Carter, Chris Moore, Michael Neill, Michael Rosen, Maurice West, Bernard Richards, Townson Cocke, Pamela Cox, John McGill

David Runciman

Short Cuts: Kaepernick Was Right

James Butler

The Penguin Book of Exorcisms edited by Joseph P. Laycock. Penguin, 336 pp., £12.99, September 2021, 978 0 14 313547 0

Diarmaid MacCulloch

The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History by James G. Clark. Yale, 649 pp., £25, October 2021, 978 0 300 11572 7
Going to Church in Medieval England by Nicholas Orme. Yale, 483 pp., £20, July 2021, 978 0 300 25650 5

Ange Mlinko

Two Poems

Skye Arundhati Thomas

The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro. Bloomsbury, 315 pp., £9.99, January, 978 1 4088 7676 3

Andrea Brady

Revolutionary Letters: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by Diane di Prima. City Lights, 213 pp., £13.99, September 2021, 978 0 9957162 6 1

Hal Foster

Poisoned Abstraction: Kurt Schwitters between Revolution and Exile by Graham Bader. Yale, 240 pp., £45, November 2021, 978 0 300 25708 3
Myself and My Aims: Writings on Art and Criticism by Kurt Schwitters, edited by Megan R. Luke, translated by Timothy Grundy. Chicago, 656 pp., £30, October 2020, 978 0 226 12939 6

Simon Reynolds

The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren: The Biography by Paul Gorman. Constable, 855 pp., £14.99, November 2021, 978 1 4721 2111 0

Bridget Alsdorf

At the Barnes: Suzanne Valadon

Christian Lorentzen

Fuccboi by Sean Thor Conroe. Wildfire, 341 pp., £16.99, January, 978 1 4722 9310 7

Diane Williams

Story: ‘Riviera’

Michael Ledger-Lomas

George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley. Chatto, 559 pp., £30, November 2021, 978 0 7011 8870 2
For King and Country: The British Monarchy and the First World War by Heather Jones. Cambridge, 576 pp., £29.99, September 2021, 978 1 108 42936 8

Simon Akam

The Habit of Excellence: Why British Army Leadership Works by Langley Sharp. Penguin, 320 pp., £20, October 2021, 978 0 241 50750 6

August Kleinzahler

Poem: ‘A History of Western Music: Chapter 60’

Susan McKay

Diary: In Portadown

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