Vol. 48 No. 6 · 2 April 2026

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Cover Artist

Paula Rego

Letters

Emma Barklamb-Knill, David McDowall, Albion Urdank, Stephens Broening, David Finch, Michael Erard, Robert Gifford, Jethro Purkis

Patricia Lockwood

The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop by Garrett Peck. New Mexico, 309 pp., £22.99, March, 978 0 8263 6925 3
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather. Everyman, 344 pp., £16.99, October 2025, 978 1 85715 089 6

Tom Johnson

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb and Taylor Aucoin. Cambridge, 362 pp., £105, October 2025, 978 1 316 51994 3

Amjad Iraqi

Short Cuts: From Gaza to Iran

Tom Crewe

Caillebotte: Painting Is a Serious Game by Amaury Chardeau. Norma, 256 pp., £44, December 2024, 978 2 37666 095 8
Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men edited by Scott Allan, Gloria Groom and Paul Perrin. Getty, 247 pp., £45, January 2025, 978 1 60606 944 8

Ferdinand Mount

Raffles, Gentleman Thief by E.W. Hornung. Penguin, 304 pp., £10.99, January, 978 0 241 79022 9
Writers in Whites: How a Group of Literary Cricketers Changed English Culture by Ollie Randall. Fairfield, 288 pp., £22, May, 978 1 915237 74 3

James Butler

Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 by Noel Malcolm. Oxford, 594 pp., £14.99, June, 978 0 19 888636 5

Liam Shaw

The Discovery of Insulin: Enlarged Edition by Michael Bliss. Chicago, 304 pp., £25, October 2025, 978 0 226 83913 4

Tony Wood

At MoMA: Wifredo Lam Reconsidered

Vadim Nikitin

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele. Mariner, 336 pp., £24, October 2024, 978 0 06 337343 3

Martha Sprackland

Poem: ‘Dark Night’

Andrew Cockburn

Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Assassination Campaign by Aviva Guttmann. Cambridge, 336 pp., £25, August 2025, 978 1 009 50307 5

Leo Robson

TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker. Granta, 208 pp., £16.99, August 2025, 978 1 80351 254 9

Aziz Huq

Wrong Sort of Citizen

Dinah Birch

Crooked Cross by Sally Carson. Persephone, 360 pp., £15, April 2025, 978 1 910263 42 6

Katie Ebner-Landy

Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann. Princeton, 216 pp., £84, September 2025, 978 0 691 27201 6

Susannah Clapp

On Soaps

Vincent Bevins

Diary: Serbia’s Student Movement

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