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Vol. 48 No. 16 · 10 September 2026
Colin Burrow
Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays by Helen Vendler. Library of America, 275 pp., £22.99, September 2025, 978 1 59853 827 4
Letters
John Tuthill, Alex Renton, Peter Hoskins, Alister Wedderburn, Colton Valentine, Celina Fox, Simon Skinner
Susannah Clapp
To the Dacha
Thomas Jones
A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul by Caroline Moorehead. Chatto, 295 pp., £25, February, 978 1 78474 503 5
Anne Carson
On Rosalía
James Meek
‘What kind of people do they think we are?’
Tony Wood
Short Cuts: Cuba on the Brink
Chal Ravens
Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94 by Simon Reynolds. White Rabbit, 456 pp., £23, June, 978 1 3996 1837 3
Liam Shaw
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers’ Deadly Quest to Find the Mythic Giant Panda by Nathalia Holt. Atria, 288 pp., £10.99, July, 978 1 66802 775 2
Frances Leviston
Poem: ‘Fir, Fallen’
Tom Crewe
Relative Failures: The Lives of Willie Wilde, Mabel Beardsley and Howard Sturgis by Matthew Sturgis. Head of Zeus, 312 pp., £25, April, 978 1 80454 366 5
Katie Ebner-Landy
The Twitnam Summer: Friendship, Satire and the Writing of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Hester Grant. HarperCollins, 352 pp., £25, June, 978 0 00 869998 7
Nick Richardson
Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies: Banshees, Boggarts and Other Folklore Creatures by Katharine Briggs and Fee Greening. Monoray, 219 pp., £18.99, September 2025, 978 1 80096 350 4 Fairies: A History by Francis Young. Polity, 340 pp., £25, March, 978 1 5095 6677 8
Kevin Okoth
At the Barbican: Pan-African Art
Lucy Wooding
Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker: A Life of Thomas Arundel by Chris Given-Wilson. Yale, 384 pp., £30, February, 978 0 300 28640 3
Gaby Wood
At the Movies: ‘Bitter Christmas’
Owen Bennett-Jones
Munir’s Victory
Emily Witt
Life of M by Rachel Cusk. Faber, 183 pp., £18.99, August, 978 0 571 39980 2
Anne Enright
Diary: Fire on the Mountain
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