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Vol. 48 No. 8 · 7 May 2026
Letters
Jonathan Conlin, Neal Ascherson, Neville Twitchell, Jeffrey Hill, Charles Halliday Dolan Jr, Joseph Sharples
William Davies
Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicisation without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger. Verso, 108 pp., £11.99, February, 978 1 83674 207 4
Susannah Clapp
Little Mags
Andrew O’Hagan
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe. Picador, 361 pp., £22, April, 978 1 0350 5627 9
Daljit Nagra
Poem: ‘Yiewsley’
Jamie Martin
Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War by Edward Fishman. Elliott and Thompson, 538 pp., £10.99, January, 978 1 78396 893 0
Jan-Werner Müller
Short Cuts: Orbán’s Fall
Laleh Khalili
Polar War: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic by Kenneth R. Rosen. Profile, 302 pp., £22, January, 978 1 80522 912 4
Tim Parks
A Fortunate Man by Henrik Pontoppidan, translated by Paul Larkin. NYRB, 869 pp., £27, June 2025, 978 1 68137 927 2
Devin Johnston
Poem: ‘Aerial’
Oliver Cussen
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last Five Hundred Years by Sunil Amrith. Penguin, 432 pp., £12.99, September 2025, 978 0 14 199386 7
Rosemary Hill
At Pallant House: On William Nicholson
Lorraine Daston
Climate by Proxy: A History of Scientific Reconstructions of the Past and the Future by Melissa Charenko. Chicago, 248 pp., £28, November 2025, 978 0 226 84410 7
Colin Kidd
The Rise and Fall of Rational Control: The History of Modern Political Philosophy by Harvey C. Mansfield. Harvard, 323 pp., £29.95, January, 978 0 674 29885 9
T.J. Clark
V is for Vagina
Jonny Bunning
Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Post-Revolutionary France by Andrea Mansker. Cornell, 282 pp., £43, December 2024, 978 1 5017 7806 3
Ange Mlinko
The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley. Picador, 209 pp., £16.99, April, 978 1 0350 2104 8
Michael Wood
Departure(s) by Julian Barnes. Cape, 160 pp., £18.99, January, 978 1 78733 572 1
Thomas Jones
Deskbound Party Bastards
Richard King
Labour in Wales
Gazelle Mba
At Tate Modern: Nigerian Modernism
Peter Phillips
Composers in the Middle Ages edited by Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne and Gaël Saint-Cricq. Boydell & Brewer, 316 pp., £95, November 2024, 978 1 83765 035 4
Paul Taylor
Diary: Ask Claude
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