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Vol. 48 No. 17 · 24 September 2026
Richard Lloyd Parry
Fallout: The Inside Story of America’s Failure to Disarm North Korea by Joel S. Wit. Yale, 535 pp., £30, January, 978 0 300 27877 4
Letters
Roger Gregory, Tim Cundy, John Bellamy Foster, John Bailey, Benjamin Letzler, Michael A. Goodman, Regan Scott, Michael Allen, John Collins, Penelope Curtis
Thomas Meaney
The West: The History of an Idea by Georgios Varouxakis. Princeton, 491 pp., £35, September 2025, 978 0 691 17718 2
Matt Foot
Short Cuts: Rejected Appeals
Susan Pedersen
Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War Two to Thatcherism by Colin Kidd. Princeton, 271 pp., £30, June, 978 0 691 18876 8
Rosalind Thomas
Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity by John Ma. Princeton, 713 pp., £25, April, 978 0 691 26003 7
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘Four Ways of Looking at a Hoopoe’
Ferdinand Mount
Think of England: Nation, People and Race in the English Imagination by Paul Kléber Monod. Cambridge, 396 pp., £35, February, 978 1 009 65229 2 The Shortest History of Migration by Ian Goldin. Old Street, 272 pp., £9.99, March 2025, 978 1 913083 73 1 Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century by Ece Temelkuran. Canongate, 256 pp., £11.99, April, 978 1 83726 204 5
Adam Shatz
On Lisette Model
Thomas Keymer
Voltaire’s Workshop: The Sources of ‘Candide’ by Edward M. Langille. McGill-Queens, 276 pp., £60, June 2025, 978 0 2280 2470 5
Andrew O’Hagan
Anita Brookner: Art and Life by Hermione Lee. Chatto, 528 pp., £28, September, 978 1 78474 468 7
Ben Campbell
Brookner’s Contact Sheet
Kasia Boddy
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin. Weidenfeld, 240 pp., £10.99, November 2024, 978 1 3996 2751 1 Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin. Weidenfeld, 204 pp., £10.99, November 2024, 978 1 4746 1595 2 A Big Storm Knocked It Over by Laurie Colwin. Weidenfeld, 245 pp., £10.99, November 2025, 978 1 3996 1442 9 Shine on, Bright and Dangerous Object by Laurie Colwin. Weidenfeld, 181 pp., £10.99, November 2025, 978 1 3996 1445 0
Harry George Daniels
At Tate Britain: Whistler’s Contradictions
Adam Mars-Jones
The Disappearers by Marlon James. Hamish Hamilton, 616 pp., £20, September, 978 0 241 71440 9
Laura Tunbridge
Schoenberg: Why He Matters by Harvey Sachs. Norton, 250 pp., £14.99, April 2025, 978 1 324 09619 1 Sonic Circulations: Music, Modernism and the Politics of Knowledge edited by Emily Dolan, Emily MacGregor and Arman Schwartz. Pennsylvania, 336 pp., £50, September 2025, 978 1 5128 2803 0
David Trotter
Microphone by Ralph Jones. Bloomsbury, 140 pp., £9.99, April, 9798765126011
Daniel Lee
Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship and Betrayal by Matthew Goodman. Ballantine, 428 pp., £18.99, May, 978 0 593 35894 8
Arthur Downing
Asset Sweating
Dani Garavelli
Diary: Cult of Mussolini
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