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Vol. 48 No. 14 · 13 August 2026
Emily Wilson
The Odyssey directed by Christopher Nolan.
Letters
Stephen Sedley, Andrew Sugden, Michael Neill, Martyn Quinn, Mike Crabtree, Agnieszka Hodgson, Patric Harting, Gavin Musgrave
T.J. Clark
Night Visitors
Michael Kulikowski
The Northern Routes to Kingship: A History of Scandinavia AD 180-550 by Dagfinn Skre. Routledge, 694 pp., £43.99, January 2025, 978 1 138 83138 4
Patricia Lockwood
Poem: ‘The World’
Erin Maglaque
Beloved Son Felix: Coming of Age in the Renaissance by Felix Platter, translated by Seán Jennett. McNally, 164 pp., £13.99, April, 978 1 961341 68 5
Alan Hollinghurst
It’s queer how I’m lonely
James Butler
Short Cuts: J.D. Vance’s Conversion
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
The Future in Our Past: The General Strike, 1926-2026 by Callum Cant and Matthew Lee. Verso, 154 pp., £11.99, April, 978 1 83674 261 6 The Edge of Revolution: The General Strike that Shook Britain by David Torrance. Bloomsbury, 320 pp., £20, March, 978 1 3994 2359 5 Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926 by Jonathan Schneer. Oxford, 416 pp., £25, March, 978 0 19 289453 3 Britain’s Revolutionary Summer: The General Strike of 1926 by Edd Mustill. Oneworld, 324 pp., £16.99, April, 978 1 83643 068 1
James Wood
Show Us the Father
Maureen N. McLane
Poem: ‘Fire’
William Davies
Young People Are Different
Peter Howarth
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes. William Collins, 431 pp., £12.99, September, 978 0 00 869686 3
Gaby Wood
Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes edited by Peter Walther. Taschen, 512 pp., £25, May, 978 3 7544 0122 4
Dennis Duncan
At Charleston: Hogarth Press
Anahid Nersessian
I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet by Catherine Breillat, translated by Christine Pichini. Semiotext(e), 224 pp., £16.99, October 2025, 978 1 63590 261 7
Chris Power
Nonesuch by Francis Spufford. Faber, 478 pp., £20, February, 978 0 571 39716 7
Ed Pulford
Forever President: A Biography of Kim Il-sung by Michael J. Seth. Reaktion, 288 pp., £20, September 2025, 978 1 83639 104 3 Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung by Fyodor Tertitskiy. Hurst, 352 pp., £25, February, 978 1 911723 54 7
Chloe Diski
Diary: In the Frame
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