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Vol. 48 No. 19 · 22 October 2026
Geoff Mann
What’s the truth?
Letters
David Woodard, Jonathan Sawday, Don Sparling, Peter Purton, John Baxendale, Larry Koenigsberg, John Ma, Fred Clough, Peter Rhoades
Aziz Huq
Short Cuts: Midterm Chicanery
Mimi Jiang
A Day in the Age of AI
Deborah Friedell
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark. Scribner, 509 pp., £30, September, 978 1 3985 6690 3
Susannah Clapp
On Shelagh Delaney
Paul Keegan
Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life edited by Karen Serres and Barnaby Wright. Yale, 168 pp., £30, October 2025, 978 1 913645 89 2 Wayne Thiebaud: A Radical Realism edited by Peter Frank. Rizzoli Electa, 192 pp., £45, September 2025, 978 0 8478 7574 0
Toril Moi
Fredric Jameson as Reader
Elizabeth Goldring
At the YCBA: On Paul Mellon
Iain Sinclair
Waymarking a Life. Test Centre Books Catalogue 20: J.H. Prynne (1936-2026) by Will Shutes. Test Centre Books, 76 pp., £15, August
Nick Richardson
At the Royal Academy: On Richard Dadd
Camille Ralphs
John Clare by Sarah Houghton-Walker. Reaktion, 190 pp., £12.99, June, 978 1 83639 198 2
Walter Johnson
Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History by Anthony E. Kaye with Gregory P. Downs. Picador, 368 pp., £17.99, August 2025, 978 1 250 39056 1
Diane Williams
Story: ‘He Seemed a Little Excited’
Colin Kidd
Complete Essays: Vol. I by David Hume, edited by David Womersley. Penguin, 448 pp., £40, May, 978 0 241 73087 4 Complete Essays: Vol. II by David Hume, edited by David Womersley. Penguin, 736 pp., £40, May, 978 0 241 73086 7
Alexander Bevilacqua
The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World by John Samuel Harpham. Harvard, 368 pp., £23.95, October 2025, 978 0 674 27837 0
Leo Robson
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated by Ralph Ellison, edited by John F. Callahan. Modern Library, 816 pp., $30, February 2024, 978 0 593 73006 5 The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison, edited by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner. Modern Library, 1072 pp., $30, March 2024, 978 0 593 73007 2
Michael Wood
Zola’s Dream: Idealism on Trial by Claire White. Cambridge, 292 pp., £90, August 2025, 978 1 009 57665 9 Émile Zola: A Determined Life by Robert Lethbridge. Reaktion, 304 pp., £25, April 2025, 978 1 83639 017 6
Ange Mlinko
Switzy by Emma Cline. Chatto, 334 pp., £18.99, September, 978 1 78474 664 3
Francis Gooding
Diary: Skateable Cities
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