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Vol. 48 No. 1 · 22 January 2026
Tom Stevenson
The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping by Joseph Torigian. Stanford, 704 pp., £40, June 2025, 978 1 5036 3475 6 The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China by Michael Sheridan. Headline, 345 pp., £12.99, July 2025, 978 1 0354 1351 5 On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World by Kevin Rudd. Oxford, 604 pp., £26.99, January 2025, 978 0 19 776603 3
Letters
David Ascher, Violeta Cortés, Clare Bucknell, Sam DeCanio, Matt Simonton, Neil Ferguson, Marie Lloyd, Mark Mildred, Richard Berengarten
Tony Wood
Short Cuts: On Venezuela
Michael Kulikowski
Cicero: The Man and His Works by Andrew R. Dyck. Cambridge, 1117 pp., £150, May 2025, 978 1 107 08564 0
Lavinia Greenlaw
Two Poems
Chris Given-Wilson
The Wars of the Roses: A Medieval Civil War by John Watts. Cambridge, 328 pp., £30, September 2025, 978 1 009 42216 1
Colm Tóibín
Yeats, Auden, Eliot: 1939, 1940, 1941
Thomas Meaney
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus. Random House, 1040 pp., £33, June 2025, 978 0 375 50234 7
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Marty Supreme’
David Runciman
107 Days by Kamala Harris. Simon and Schuster, 304 pp., £25, September 2025, 978 1 3985 5791 8
Anna McGee
At the Palazzo Strozzi: On Fra Angelico
Chal Ravens
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears. Simon and Schuster, 275 pp., £9.99, July 2024, 978 1 3985 2254 1 Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly by Jeff Weiss. MCD, 388 pp., £15.99, July 2025, 978 0 374 60613 8
Stephanie Burt
On Richard Siken
Geoff Mann
Everything Must Go: Why We Are Obsessed with the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey. Picador, 500 pp., £12.99, April 2025, 978 1 5290 9595 1 Hopeful Pessimism by Mara van der Lugt. Princeton, 255 pp., £20, March 2025, 978 0 691 26560 5
Adam Mars-Jones
Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal. Serpent’s Tail, 375 pp., £16.99, June 2025, 978 1 78816 948 6
Julian Bell
At the Musée Jacquemart-André: On Georges de La Tour
Natasha Fedorson
Kidnapped: A Story in Crimes by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, translated by Marian Schwartz. Deep Vellum, 295 pp., £14, June 2024, 978 1 64605 204 2
Rachel Armitage
Diary: Brass Bands
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