London Review of book 17 june

Letters
Susie Thomas, Julia Prewitt Brown, Francis Reavley, Gregory Klyve, Kieran Setiya, James Russell, Benjamin Midler, Roger Berger, Norman Dombey, Brian Reffin Smith

Marianne Boruch. Poem: ‘Dear Thus and So. Dear Eventually’

Tessa Hadley. The True History of the First Mrs Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson

Tariq Ali. Muhammad by Maxime Rodinson, translated by Anne Carter

William Davies. Short Cuts: Friend or Threat

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Each rock has two names

Francesca Wade. At the Whitechapel: Eileen Agar

James Romm. Rome Is Burning by Anthony Barrett

Michael Wood. At the Movies: ‘Mandabi’

Alex de Waal. Steal, Burn, Rape, Kill

Niamh Gallagher. The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend

Lucie Elven. I Used to Be Charming by Eve Babitz

Jorie Graham. Poem: ‘Cage’

Stuart Jeffries
Correspondence 1923-66: Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer edited by Wolfgang Schopf, translated by Susan Reynolds and Michael Winkler
Kracauer: A Biography by Jorg Spater, translated by Daniel Steuer

Colin Burrow. On Fiona Benson

Adam Mars-Jones. Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

Edmund Gordon. Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor

Freddie Mason. At the Hayward: Matthew Barney

Sharon Marcus
Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion
Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from 19th-Century France by Rachel Mesch

Patrick McGuinness. Diary: Oxford by Train