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Vol. 48 No. 18 · 8 October 2026
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Always under Siege: Olga Freidenberg’s Diary-Theory and the Everyday Terror of Stalinism by Irina Paperno. Cornell, 244 pp., £23.99, March, 978 1 5017 8583 2
Letters
Janet Montefiore, John Stephenson, Jean Sherman, Sam Warren Miell, Simon Hardeman
Tom Stevenson
If Russia Wins: A Scenario by Carlo Masala, translated by Olena Ebel and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp. Atlantic, 120 pp., £9.99, August 2025, 978 1 80546 574 4 Atlantic Resolve: The War for Estonia by Thomas Newman and John Pierson. Amazon, 224 pp., £7.55, March 2025, 9798313464589
Edmund Gordon
William Golding: The Faber Letters edited by Tim Kendall. Faber, 572 pp., £60, November 2025, 978 0 571 37442 7
Ian Penman
Tremor of Intent by Anthony Burgess. Galileo, 252 pp., £10.99, February, 978 1 915530 70 7
Dexter Dalwood
At Guggenheim Bilbao: On Jasper Johns
Freya Johnston
Alexander Pope: The Major Works edited by Henry Power. Oxford, 840 pp., £134, January, 978 0 19 886785 2
Peter Geoghegan
Short Cuts: Funding Reform
Em Hogan
The Wonderful World that Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek by Andrew Durbin. Granta, 480 pp., £25, April, 978 1 80351 213 6
Blake Morrison
Black Bag by Luke Kennard. John Murray, 389 pp., £18.99, March, 978 1 3998 2611 2
Gill Partington
After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960-2025 by Steve Clay and M.C. Kinniburgh. Granary, 228 pp., £39.99, July 2025, 978 1 887123 87 7
Malin Hay
Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey. Faber, 334 pp., £10.99, September 2025, 978 0 571 38121 0
Malcolm Gaskill
The Leopard in the Garden: Animal and Human Lives in Paris at the First Public Zoo of the Modern Era by Richard W. Burkhardt. Chicago, 768 pp., £44, April, 978 0 226 84397 1
Laleh Khalili
Ghost Fleets
David Todd
The People’s Emperor: The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III by Edward Shawcross. Faber, 516 pp., £25, July, 978 0 571 36130 4
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Unfaithful Wife’
Charles Hope
Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life by Stephen J. Campbell. Princeton, 308 pp., £30, April 2025, 978 0 691 19368 7
Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘Venetian vedute (acqua alta e inverno)’
Raghu Karnad
Gandhi: The End of Non-Violence by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee. Vintage, 406 pp., £27.99, April 2025, 978 0 14 347170 7
Paul Taylor
Free Agents
Pablo Scheffer
How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons by Nicholas J. Higham. Yale, 368 pp., £25, March, 978 0 300 25492 1
D.K. Renton
Diary: Bristol goes Green
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