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Vol. 44 No. 9 · 12 May 2022
Azadeh Moaveni
Women on the Brink
Letters
Paul Theroux, Jon Bosak, Michael McKissick, Graham Boal, Michael Parsons, Flora Clark and Oliver Evans, Gordon Murray, John Komurki, Nicholas Bird
John Burnside
Poem: ‘Apostasy’
Neal Ascherson
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-95: Light and Flame by Richard Butterwick. Yale, 482 pp., £30, November 2020, 978 0 300 25220 0
Naomi Grant
At the National Gallery: Gainsborough’s ‘Blue Boy’
Eric Foner
What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party by Michael Kazin. Farrar, Straus, 396 pp., $35, March, 978 0 374 20023 7
Tom Stevenson
Not War Alone
Edmund Gordon
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World by Oliver Milman. Atlantic, 260 pp., £16.99, January, 978 1 83895 117 7 Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson. Vintage, 328 pp., £9.99, May, 978 1 5291 1442 3
Tom Johnson
Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fictions by Orietta Da Rold. Cambridge, 270 pp., £75, October 2020, 978 1 108 84057 6
Malin Hay
On the Sofa: ‘Russian Doll’
Donald MacKenzie
Blink, Bid, Buy
Chris Moore
A Century of Tanks
Lorna Finlayson
Complaint! by Sara Ahmed. Duke, 359 pp., £23.99, September 2021, 978 1 4780 1771 4
Maya James
Short Cuts: Climate Politics
Keith Thomas
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill. Allen Lane, 308 pp., £20, November 2021, 978 0 241 41338 8
Alexandra Reza
Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox. Penguin, 170 pp., £9.99, September 2021, 978 0 241 53005 4 Waiting for the Waters to Rise by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox. World Editions, 282 pp., £12.99, August 2021, 978 1 912987 15 3 L’Évangile du nouveau monde by Maryse Condé. Buchet Chastel, 287 pp., €20, September 2021, 978 2 283 03544 3
David Trotter
At the Towner Gallery: Jananne Al-Ani
Blake Morrison
They by Kay Dick. Faber, 107 pp., £8.99, February, 978 0 571 37086 3
Daniel Trilling
Cut Short: Why We’re Failing Our Youth – and How to Fix It by Ciaran Thapar. Penguin, 352 pp., £10.99, June 2022, 978 0 241 98870 1
Stephanie Burt
Two Poems
Mimi Jiang
Diary: In Shanghai
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