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Vol. 48 No. 11 · 25 June 2026
Steven Shapin
Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs by Alec Nevala-Lee. Norton, 338 pp., £23.99, July 2025, 978 1 324 07510 3
Letters
Kevin Morris, Katie da Cunha Lewin, Lùcas Mackle, Hana Loftus, Peter Singer, Erin L. Thompson, James Womack, Ben Campbell, Martin Spence
Adam Thirlwell
Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev by Maxim Gorky, translated by Bryan Karetnyk. Fitzcarraldo, 196 pp., £14.99, September 2025, 978 1 80427 197 1
J.S. Tennant
Short Cuts: In Cuba
Daisy Hay
The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue by Meghan Kobza. Yale, 368 pp., £25, May, 978 0 300 27621 3
Simon Skinner
The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson. Little Brown, 608 pp., £12.99, May, 978 0 349 14573 0
Ruby Hamilton
At the Movies: Screwball Comedies
Zain Samir
War on the Shia
Hester van Hensbergen
Big Ag
David Todd
The First Fascist: The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Morès by Sergio Luzzatto. Allen Lane, 488 pp., £30, February, 978 0 241 71581 9
Christopher Kelly
Augustine the African by Catherine Conybeare. Profile, 268 pp., £25, August 2025, 978 1 78816 750 5
John-Paul Stonard
At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: On Georg Baselitz
Dinah Birch
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge. Daunt, 284 pp., £10.99, March, 978 1 917092 37 1 An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge. Daunt, 288 pp., £10.99, March, 978 1 917092 50 0
Joanna Biggs
Famesick: A Memoir by Lena Dunham. Fourth Estate, 416 pp., £18.99, April, 978 0 00 838421 0
Stephanie Burt
Two Poems
Mark Ford
Only Sing by John Berryman, edited by Shane McCrae. Faber, 166 pp., £12.99, January, 978 0 571 40013 3
Andrew O’Hagan
At the NPG: Portraits of Marilyn
John Lahr
When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy by David Margolick. Schocken, 388 pp., £30, November 2025, 978 0 8052 4255 3
Philippa Conlon
Helm by Sarah Hall. Faber, 346 pp., £9.99, April, 978 0 571 38358 0
Patricia Lockwood
Diary: A Tradcath Wedding
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