London Review of Books

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  Año 2020, Vol. 42, Número 22

  • Letters

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  • Julian Barnes The Letters of Edgar Degas edited by Theodore Reff

    Julian Barnes

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    • The Letters of Edgar Degas edited

      Theodore Reff

      Wildenstein Plattner Institute, 2020

    págs. 5-8

    

  • Why go high?

    Adam Shatz

    pág. 9

    

  • Short Cuts: Rio Grande Valley Republicans

    Mike Davis

    pág. 10

    

  • Warthog Dynamism

    David Bromwich

    págs. 12-13

    

  • Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy by Emma Griffin

    Susan Pedersen

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    • Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy

      Emma Griffin

      Yale, 2020

    págs. 15-17

    

  • Consider the Giraffe

    Katherine Rundell

    pág. 17

    

  • Endell Street: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital by Wendy Moore

    Helen McCarthy

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    • Endell Street: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital

      Wendy Moore

      Atlantic, 2020

    págs. 19-20

    

  • The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S. Scott / Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti by Johnhenry Gonzalez / Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh

    Pooja Bhatia

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    • The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

      Julius S. Scott

      Verso, 2020

    • Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti

      Johnhenry Gonzalez

      Yale, 2019

    • Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

      Sudhir Hazareesingh

      Penguin, 2020

    págs. 21-24

    

  • At the Pace Gallery: Trevor Paglen

    Daniel Soar

    pág. 23

    

  • Homie by Danez Smith / The Tradition by Jericho Brown

    Kevin Okoth

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    • Homie

      Danez Smith

      Chatto, 2020

    • The Tradition

      Jericho Brown

      Picador, 2019

    págs. 25-26

    

  • Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Colin Burrow / How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate

    Tobias Gregory

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    • Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity

      Colin Burrow

      Oxford, 2019

    • How the Classics Made Shakespeare

      Jonathan Bate

      Princeton, 2020

    págs. 27-31

    

  • Figureheads

    Clare Bucknell

    págs. 28-29

    

  • Poem: ‘Oh What A Night (Alkibiades)’

    Anne Carson

    págs. 32-34

    

  • Real Life by Brandon Taylor

    Paul Mendez

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    • Real Life

      Brandon Taylor

      Daunt, 2020

    págs. 35-36

    

  • At the Movies: ‘Time’

    Michael Wood

    pág. 36

    

  • Sunnis and Shi’a: A Political History by Laurence Louër / Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry that Unravelled the Middle East by Kim Ghattas

    Lawrence Rosen

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    • Sunnis and Shi’a: A Political History

      Laurence Louër

      Princeton, 2020

    • Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry that Unravelled the Middle East

      Kim Ghattas

      Wildfire, 2020

    págs. 37-38

    

  • To Die One’s Own Death

    Jacqueline Rose

    págs. 39-43

    

  • Diary: Alone in Venice

    Colm Tóibín

    págs. 44-45