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Vol. 48 No. 9 · 21 May 2026
Letters
Michaela Drapes, Bob Frishman, Colin McArthur, Cedric Van Dijck, Marie Louise Krogh, Grant Reeher, Helen L. Daly, John Mullen, Editors, London Review of Books
John Lanchester
Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won by Oliver Bullough. Weidenfeld, 336 pp., £25, January, 978 1 3996 1809 0 How to Launder Money: A Guide for Law Enforcement, Prosecutors and Policymakers by George Cottrell and Lawrence Burke Files. Biteback, 400 pp., £25, February, 978 1 83736 040 6
James Butler
Short Cuts: Labour’s Failure
Tom Stevenson
Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan by Paul D. Miller. Cambridge, 545 pp., £35, October 2025, 978 1 009 61437 5
Tarn MacArthur
Poem: ‘The Clearance of Aoineadh Mòr, 1824’
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples by Francis Young. Cambridge, 432 pp., £25, June 2025, 978 1 009 58657 3 The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades by Aleksander Pluskowski. Yale, 447 pp., £25, January, 978 0 300 27906 1
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Stranger’
Thomas Nagel
Morality and Responsibility by T.M. Scanlon. Polity, 254 pp., £18.99, April 2025, 978 1 5095 6697 6
Becca Rothfeld
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside. Vintage, 246 pp., £9.99, June 2025, 978 1 78487 997 6 The Fifth Year by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside. New Directions, 92 pp., $15.95, May, 978 0 8112 3998 1 The Loft by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Amanda Prantera. Vintage, 233 pp., £16.99, June 2025, 978 1 5299 5347 3 Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside. Vintage, 81 pp., £9.99, January, 978 1 5299 5352 7
Emily Berry
A Letter to the Dead: Collected Poems by Lynette Roberts, edited by Patrick McGuinness and Charles Mundye. Carcanet, 364 pp., £20, November 2025, 978 1 80017 505 1
Nicholas Higham
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman. Princeton, 307 pp., £30, September 2025, 978 0 691 24949 0
Ben Walker
Samurai Suits
Robert Cioffi
The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies by Guy de la Bédoyère. Yale, 352 pp., £11.99, October 2025, 978 0 300 28494 2 The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. Wildfire, 384 pp., £12.99, April 2025, 978 1 4722 9518 7 The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra by Toby Wilkinson. Bloomsbury, 354 pp., £12.99, September 2025, 978 1 5266 6467 9
Youssef Ben Ismail
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World by Justin Marozzi. Penguin, 524 pp., £16.99, July, 978 0 14 199765 0
Tom Johnson
At Senate House Library: Caxton’s Print Revolution
Adam Mars-Jones
Vigil by George Saunders. Bloomsbury, 172 pp., £18.99, January, 978 1 5266 2430 7
Patricia Lockwood
Poem: ‘Rosarita’
Nicole Flattery
Trip by Amie Barrodale. Cape, 298 pp., £16.99, February, 978 1 78733 593 6
Alex Cocotas
Diary: Memories of Harrison Starr
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