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Vol. 48 No. 3 · 19 February 2026
Seamus Perry
Pluralism and the Modern Poet
Letters
Rob Wills, Nick Boreham, Rob Jackson, Andrew Dobson, Antony Spawforth, Benjamin Letzler, David Elstein, Gilbert O’Brien, Diana Silver
James Wolcott
John Updike: A Life in Letters by John Updike, edited by James Schiff. Hamish Hamilton, 874 pp., £40, November 2025, 978 0 241 70758 6
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘You Shall Not Speak’
Laleh Khalili
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces by Seth Harp. Viking, 357 pp., £22.50, August 2025, 978 0 593 65508 5
Jen Stout
Short Cuts: Winter in Kyiv
John Gallagher
Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Rachel Midura. Cornell, 316 pp., £23.99, March 2025, 978 1 5017 7992 3 The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren. Allen Lane, 596 pp., £40, July 2025, 978 0 241 18853 8
Kate Heard
The Story of Tudor Art by Christina J. Faraday. Apollo, 448 pp., £40, September 2025, 978 1 80454 739 7 Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring. Yale, 424 pp., £40, November 2025, 978 1 913107 50 5
Jameel Jaffer
Thought Control
James Meek
Far-Right Wellness Product
Colin Burrow
The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Manners, Mores, Types by Katie Ebner-Landy. Harvard, 390 pp., £41.95, October 2025, 978 0 674 29412 7
Gaby Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Secret Agent’
Chris Power
Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers. Bloomsbury, 290 pp., £9.99, March, 978 1 5266 4945 4
Claire Hall
Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science by Nicholas Nicastro. Reaktion, 192 pp., £15.99, September 2024, 978 1 78914 922 7
Brian Dillon
At the Photographers’ Gallery: Boris Mikhailov’s Provocations
Mike Jay
Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World by John Blair. Princeton, 519 pp., £30, September 2025, 978 0 691 22479 4
Tobias Gregory
Milton’s Theological Process: Reading ‘De Doctrina Christiana’ and ‘Paradise Lost’ by Jason A. Kerr. Oxford, 299 pp., £82, October 2023, 978 0 19 887508 6
Jeremy Harding
Diary: Bardot at the Notting Hill Coronet
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