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Vol. 47 No. 19 · 23 October 2025
David Trotter
The Inner Life of ‘Mrs Dalloway’ by Edward Mendelson. Columbia, 137 pp., £20, September, 978 0 231 22171 9 ‘Mrs Dalloway’: Biography of a Novel by Mark Hussey. Manchester, 222 pp., £18.99, May, 978 1 5261 7681 3 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, edited by Edward Mendelson. NYRB, 208 pp., £15.99, September, 978 1 68137 998 2 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, edited by Trudi Tate. Oxford, 224 pp., £7.99, May, 978 0 19 285985 3
Letters
Peter Walker, Rebecca Cook, Dana Repka, John Dilworth, John D. Patterson, Georgie Newson, Malcolm Andrew, Jeremy Moon, Abigail Thorn, Charles Skinner
Aziz Huq
Short Cuts: Gerrymandering
Julian Barnes
Gustave Flaubert et Michel Lévy: Un couple explosif by Yvan Leclerc and Jean-Yves Mollier. Le Livre de Poche, 224 pp., €8.40, November 2024, 978 2 253 94112 5
Michael Ledger-Lomas
The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes by William Kelleher Storey. Oxford, 528 pp., £30.99, July, 978 0 19 981135 9
Lorraine Daston
Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction by Sadiah Qureshi. Allen Lane, 470 pp., £30, June, 978 0 241 35210 6
Gaby Wood
At the Fine Art Society: Avigdor Arikha’s Prints
Fiona Green
To 2040 by Jorie Graham. Carcanet, 95 pp., £15.99, April 2023, 978 1 80017 316 3
Oliver Cussen
Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World by Corey Ross. Princeton, 447 pp., £35, September 2024, 978 0 691 21144 2 In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings by James C. Scott. Yale, 220 pp., £20, February, 978 0 300 27849 1
Robert Crawford
Poem: ‘Enheduanna’s Song’
Owen Hatherley
Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich, London 1950-2000 by Ana Francisco Sutherland. Park, 415 pp., £35, July 2024, 978 3 03860 342 9 Dulwich: Mid-Century Oasis by Paul Davis, Ian McInnes and Catherine Samy. RIBA, 207 pp., £27, September 2023, 978 1 915722 31 7
Elisabeth R. O’Connell
The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt by Euphrosyne Doxiadis. Thames and Hudson, 248 pp., £40, October 2024, 978 0 500 02794 3
John Lahr
Suddenly Something Clicked: The Languages of Film Editing and Sound Design by Walter Murch. Faber, 358 pp., £30, May, 978 0 571 32885 7
Randall Kennedy
John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community by Raymond Arsenault. Yale, 558 pp., £25, February 2024, 978 0 300 28181 1 John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg. Simon & Schuster, 704 pp., $23, October 2024, 978 1 9821 4300 8
Adam Mars-Jones
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai. Hamish Hamilton, 670 pp., £25, September, 978 0 241 77082 5
Diane Williams
Story: ‘Mango’
Jérôme Tubiana
Diary: Siege of El Fasher
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