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Vol. 48 No. 4 · 5 March 2026
Michael Dobson
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe by Stephen Greenblatt. Bodley Head, 352 pp., £25, September 2025, 978 1 84792 713 2
Letters
Lee Gillette, Neil Blackshaw, Ed Jesudason, Samuel Freeman, David Foglesong, Jim Holt, Michael Neill, Malcolm Parry
Susannah Clapp
At the British Museum: ‘Hawaii’
Erin Maglaque
Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio by Elizabeth Currie. Reaktion, 198 pp., £30, September 2025, 978 1 83639 085 5
Clare Jackson
Lying Abroad: Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy by Carol Chillington Rutter. Manchester, 313 pp., £20, February, 978 1 5261 7206 8
Jackson Lears
Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet by Edward Luce. Bloomsbury, 545 pp., £30, May 2025, 978 1 5266 3784 0
Deborah Friedell
Short Cuts: Versions of Melania
James Butler
‘Need a lord on the board?’
Rachel Nolan
A Flower Travelled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children by Haley Cohen Gilliland. Avid Reader, 472 pp., £22, July 2025, 978 1 6680 1714 2
Paul Taylor
The Age of Diagnosis: Are Medical Labels Doing Us More Harm Than Good? by Suzanne O’Sullivan. Hachette, 308 pp., £10.99, March, 978 1 3997 2766 2
Clare Bucknell
At the National Gallery: Wright of Derby
Adam Mars-Jones
Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth by Adèle Yon. Sous Sol, 392 pp., £18, February 2025, 978 2 36468 957 2
Maureen N. McLane
Poem: ‘From ‘Daybook’’
David Trotter
Into the Weeds by Lydia Davis. Yale, 139 pp., £12.99, January, 978 0 300 27974 0
Alexander Bevilacqua
Noah and the Flood in Western Thought by Philip C. Almond. Cambridge, 396 pp., £35, April 2025, 978 1 009 55722 1
Don Paterson
Poem: ‘Phoenix’
Barbara Newman
The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland by Lindy Brady. Cambridge, 272 pp., £25.99, May 2024, 978 1 009 22563 2
Long Ling
Diary: Divorce, Beijing Style
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