Vol. 48 No. 10 · 4 June 2026
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Vol. 48 No. 10 · 4 June 2026
David Runciman
The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game by C. Thi Nguyen. Allen Lane, 353 pp., £25, January, 978 0 241 65397 5
Letters
Rahul Makam, Clive Irving, Jeffrey Susla, Christopher Lyon, Tom Ciantra, Kirsten E. Shepherd, Stephen Halliwell, Hassan Damluji, Min Wild
James Meek
Short Cuts: Burnham’s Learning
Stefan Collini
Squadrons of Pigs
Diane Williams
Story: ‘The Full Stature’
Greg Afinogenov
Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime by Marlène Laruelle. Stanford, 402 pp., £26.99, January 2025, 978 1 5036 4159 4 Russia’s World Order: How Civilisationism Explains the Conflict with the West by Paul Robinson. Cornell, 160 pp., £22.99, April 2025, 978 1 5017 8001 1 Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance by Jeremy Morris. Bloomsbury, 243 pp., £21.99, March 2025, 978 1 350 50931 3
Malcolm Gaskill
Dangerously Scary
Deborah Friedell
Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery by Gavin Newsom. Bodley Head, 291 pp., £25, March, 978 1 84792 946 4
Malcolm Petrie
The Cancelled Prime Minister: The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall of Ramsay MacDonald by Walter Reid. Hurst, 357 pp., £25, February, 978 1 80526 530 6
Rory Scothorne
A History of the Scottish Labour Party by David Torrance. Edinburgh, 314 pp., £24.99, January, 978 1 3995 4480 1
Claire Wilmot
Gold Rush
Jonathan Parry
Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect by H.S. Jones. Princeton, 445 pp., £38, January, 978 0 691 18011 3
Hal Foster
At MoMA: A Dose of Duchamp
Rahmane Idrissa
Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara by Judith Scheele. Profile, 374 pp., £12.99, July, 978 1 78816 646 1
J. Robert Lennon
Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty. St Martin’s, 550 pp., £18.99, July 2025, 978 1 250 35458 7 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. Picador, 865 pp., £12.99, June 2025, 978 1 5290 9994 2 Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry. Picador, 499 pp., £12.99, June 2025, 978 1 5290 9997 3 Dead Man’s Walk by Larry McMurtry. Picador, 429 pp., £12.99, June 2025, 978 1 5290 9996 6 Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry. Picador, 668 pp., £12.99, June 2025, 978 1 5290 9995 9
Jon Day
Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers. Bloomsbury, 198 pp., £18.99, October 2025, 978 1 5266 6342 9
Ardis Butterfield
Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life edited by Roger S. Wieck with Emerald Lucas. Giles, 232 pp., £35, September 2025, 978 1 917273 02 2
Michael Hofmann
The Effingers: A Berlin Saga by Gabriele Tergit, translated by Sophie Duvernoy. Pushkin, 864 pp., £20, November 2025, 978 1 78227 951 8
Lili Owen Rowlands
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda by Carrie Rickey. Norton, 288 pp., £13.99, September 2025, 978 1 324 11045 3
Susannah Clapp
At the King’s Gallery: Royal Frocks
Inigo Thomas
Diary: JFK Jr and Me
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