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Vol. 47 No. 17 · 25 September 2025
Letters
Tim Cundy, Robert Crawford, Steve Carey, Ian Ellison, Miranda Carter-Watson, Ian Charlton, Gerald Mangan, Helen Robertson
Adam Thirlwell
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade. Faber, 472 pp., £20, May, 978 0 571 36931 7
Tom Johnson
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight by Arthur Bahr. Chicago, 257 pp., £36, March, 978 0 226 83535 8
Elizabeth Goldring
At the Frick: Enthusiastic about Pictures
Ian Penman
What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory by Brian Eno and Bette A. Faber, 122 pp., £14.99, January, 978 0 571 39551 4 A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary 1995 by Brian Eno. Faber, 441 pp., £16.99, March 2023, 978 0 571 37462 5
Andy Beckett
The Most Dangerous Man in Britain?: The Political Writing by Tony Benn. Verso, 275 pp., £20, April, 978 1 80429 829 9
Paul Laity
After Martha
Peter Geoghegan
Short Cuts: Reform’s Disaster Capitalism
William Davies
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists and the Origins of Trumpism by John Ganz. Penguin, 426 pp., £10.99, June, 978 1 4059 8169 9
Clare Bucknell
On Rachel Ruysch
J. Robert Lennon
Swag by Elmore Leonard. Penguin, 226 pp., £9.99, June, 978 0 241 75541 9 The Switch by Elmore Leonard. Penguin, 199 pp., £9.99, June, 978 0 241 75542 6 Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard. Penguin, 263 pp., £9.99, June, 978 0 241 75540 2
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘Autumn Cyclamen’
Abigail Green
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse. Manchester, 311 pp., £25, November 2024, 978 1 5261 8856 4
Emily Berry
The Expansion Project by Ben Pester. Granta, 214 pp., £16.99, August, 978 1 80351 258 7
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Diary: Two Cultures of Denunciation
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