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Vol. 48 No. 2 · 5 February 2026
Adam Shatz
Another Country
Letters
Erin L. Thompson, T.J. Clark, Amia Srinivasan, Owen Hughes, Jeremy Burgess, Seymour Adams, Polly Mortimer, Bruce Johnson, Tim Peters, Mike Gavin, Paul Roper
Christopher Harding
Short Cuts: Japan at the Polls
Jonathan Rée
Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys. Verso, 176 pp., £16.99, November 2025, 978 1 80429 682 0 The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève by Marco Filoni, translated by David Broder. Northwestern, 272 pp., £35, July 2025, 978 0 8101 4878 9
Diane Williams
Story: ‘For Those Who Have Been Charmed’
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History by Vali Nasr. Princeton, 408 pp., £30, May 2025, 978 0 691 26892 7
Daisy Hay
Friends until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution by James Grant. Norton, 477 pp., £35, September 2025, 978 0 393 54210 3
Thomas Nagel
One Life to Lead: The Mysteries of Time and the Goods of Attachment by Samuel Scheffler. Oxford, 251 pp., £19.99, May 2025, 978 0 19 775463 4
Rosemary Hill
Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by Carla Kaplan. Hurst, 581 pp., £27.50, December 2025, 978 1 80526 537 5
Neal Spencer
At the Grand Egyptian Museum: New Pharaonism
Hal Foster
Barnett Newman: Here by Amy Newman. Princeton, 693 pp., £35, January, 978 0 691 24918 6
Ange Mlinko
The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken. Penguin, 123 pp., £9.99, November 2025, 978 1 4059 7678 7 The Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken. Penguin, 183 pp., £14.99, November 2025, 978 0 241 75274 6
Susannah Clapp
On Baya
Anna Della Subin
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary by Nora Berend. Hodder, 236 pp., £25, November 2024, 978 1 3997 0962 0
Donald MacKenzie
AI’s Scale
Thomas Jones
The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius, translated by Tom Holland. Penguin, 448 pp., £10.99, March, 978 0 14 198038 6
Rae Armantrout
Poem: ‘Nursery Song’
Christian Lorentzen
True Nature: The Lives of Peter Matthiessen by Lance Richardson. Chatto, 709 pp., £30, October 2025, 978 1 78474 301 7
Iza Ding
The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China by Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li with Claire Cousineau. Harvard, 256 pp., £24.95, September 2025, 978 0 674 29539 1
Alexander Clapp
Diary: In the Amazon
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