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Vol. 48 No. 12 · 9 July 2026
William Davies
Burnham’s Political Economy
Letters
Camilla Toulmin, Jason Jawando, Jordan Osserman, Stuart O’Hara, Catherine McLoughlin, Tony Stuart, John Charlton, Alexander Jabbari, David Shengold, Roderick Chadwick
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘Auguries’
Colin Kidd
A Spy amongst Us: Daniel Defoe’s Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence by Marc Mierowsky. Yale, 416 pp., £25, February, 978 0 300 26016 8 Conflict and Loyalty: Jacobitism in Europe and Beyond by Allan I. MacInnes. Reaktion, 272 pp., £25, August 2025, 978 1 83639 093 0
Alice Hunt
Queen Catherine’s Court: Power and Rebellion in Restoration England by Sophie Shorland. Atlantic, 332 pp., £11.45, June 2025, 978 1 83895 641 7 Later Stuart Queens, 1660-1735: Religion, Political Culture and Patronage edited by Eilish Gregory and Michael C. Questier. Macmillan, 368 pp., £119.99, January 2025, 978 3 031 38815 6 The Material World of a Restoration Queen Consort: The Privy Purse Accounts of Catherine of Braganza edited by Maria Hayward. Boydell and Brewer, 540 pp., £59.99, November 2024, 978 1 910653 14 2
Dani Garavelli
Short Cuts: Stealing from the SNP
Marina Warner
Celia Paul: Works 1975-2025 edited by Michael Mack and Liv Constable-Maxwell. Mack, 543 pp., £150, February 2025, 978 1 915743 65 7
Seamus Perry
Ash Keys: New Selected Poems by Michael Longley. Cape, 182 pp., £13, July 2025, 978 1 78733 485 4
Patrick Cockburn
For and against a United Ireland by Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride. Royal Irish Academy, 200 pp., £18, October 2025, 978 1 80205 035 6
Adéwálé Májà-Pearce
At MOWAA: Nigeria’s New Museum
Muhammad Shehada
‘I would never release him’
Jeremy Harding
Le Journal d’un prisonnier by Nicolas Sarkozy. Fayard, 216 pp., €20.90, December 2025, 978 2 213 73469 9
Susannah Clapp
At Dungeness
Raymond N. MacKenzie
Journey to the Moon by Jules Verne, translated by David Coward with William Butcher. Oxford, 353 pp., £9.99, August 2025, 978 0 19 894178 1
Colin Burrow
On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser. Princeton, 333 pp., £25, November 2025, 978 0 691 25756 3
Christine Okoth
Part of the Story: Writings from Half a Century by Margaret Busby. Hamish Hamilton, 480 pp., £22, March, 978 0 241 68678 2
Owen Hatherley
Comrades in Art: Artists against Fascism 1933-43 by Andy Friend. Thames & Hudson, 360 pp., £40, September 2025, 978 0 500 02741 7
Tess Little
And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker. Boiler House, 181 pp., £14.99, September 2025, 978 1 915812 74 2
Blake Morrison
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout. Viking, 202 pp., £18.99, May, 978 0 241 81430 7
Armando Ledezma
Diary: In Venezuela
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