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Vol. 48 No. 5 · 19 March 2026
Letters
Tom Crewe, Mike Gavin, M.E. Grey, Alex Robinson, Dany Nobus, Dominic Riding, Bob Jope
Andrew O’Hagan
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie. Collins, 456 pp., £22, August 2025, 978 0 00 877545 2 Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre. Doubleday, 367 pp., £25, October 2025, 978 1 5299 8524 5
Nicholas Spice
Lyrical Diary: Lieder from Franz Schubert to Wolfgang Rihm by Christian Gerhaher, translated by Shaun Whiteside. Faber, 397 pp., £25, September 2025, 978 0 571 35770 3
Stefan Collini
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Volume X: 1942-44 edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden. Faber, 1080 pp., £60, July 2025, 978 0 571 39649 8
Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse by Joseph Kellner. Cornell, 242 pp., £39, June 2025, 978 1 5017 8151 3
Ian Patterson
Poem: ‘Actual Outer Margins’
Steven Shapin
Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine and Magic by Alison Bashford. Chicago, 446 pp., £25, December 2025, 978 0 226 83115 2
William Davies
Short Cuts: Tactical Voting
Joanna Biggs
On the Calculation of Volume: Book I by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland. Faber, 179 pp., £12.99, April 2025, 978 0 571 38337 5 On the Calculation of Volume: Book II by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland. Faber, 204 pp., £12.99, April 2025, 978 0 571 38340 5 On the Calculation of Volume: Book III by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell. Faber, 194 pp., £12.99, November 2025, 978 0 571 38342 9 On the Calculation of Volume: Book IV by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell. Faber, 198 pp., £12.99, April, 978 0 571 39703 7
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Wuthering Heights’
Daniella Shreir
Oeuvre écrite et parlée, 1968-2015 by Chantal Akerman, edited by Cyril Béghin. L’Arachnéen, 1584 pp., £60, April 2024, 978 2 37367 022 6 Chantal Akerman Collection: Volume 1, 1967-78 BFI, five discs, £54.99, February 2025 Chantal Akerman Collection: Volume 2, 1982-2015 BFI, five discs, £54.99, June 2025
Christina Faraday
At the Wellcome Collection: ‘Expecting’
Neal Ascherson
The Paris Commune in Britain: Radicals, Refugees and Revolutionaries after 1871 by Laura C. Forster. Oxford, 214 pp., £84, May 2025, 978 0 19 894943 5
Tom Stevenson
Iran, Week One
Andy Beckett
Gordon Brown: Power with Purpose by James Macintyre. Bloomsbury, 325 pp., £25, February, 978 1 5266 7341 1
Jefferson Cowie
American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana by Thomas E. Patterson. Louisiana State, 704 pp., £43, February 2025, 978 0 8071 8299 4
Edmund Gordon
Good Country People and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor, edited by Lauren Groff. Faber, 286 pp., £9.99, October 2025, 978 0 571 39633 7 Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Why Do the Heathen Rage?’: A Behind the Scenes Look at a Work in Progress by Jessica Hooten Wilson. Brazos, 192 pp., £19.99, March 2024, 978 1 58743 618 5
Michael Hofmann
At the Norton: Rembrandt in Palm Beach
Susan Pedersen
Diary: Men explain Epstein to me
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