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Vol. 47 No. 3 · 20 February 2025
Clair Wills
A Life of One’s Own by Marion Milner. Routledge, 276 pp., £17.99, May 2024, 978 1 032 75755 1 An Experiment in Leisure by Marion Milner. Routledge, 234 pp., £17.99, May 2024, 978 1 032 75753 7 Marion Milner: On Creativity by David Russell. Oxford, 163 pp., £18.99, October 2024, 978 0 19 285920 4
Letters
Christopher Eva, M.W. Rowe, Jamie Gough, Martin Shaw, Terry Hanstock, Robert Hunter, Rupert Read, Anthony Rudolf, Lavina Chu, Ormond Simpson
Adam Shatz
Olivier Messiaen: A Critical Biography by Robert Sholl. Reaktion, 255 pp., £25, May 2024, 978 1 78914 865 7 Messiaen in Context edited by Robert Sholl. Cambridge, 348 pp., £95, November 2023, 978 1 108 48791 7
Lavinia Greenlaw
Short Cuts: On Marianne Faithfull
Christopher Clark
Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021 by Angela Merkel with Beate Baumann, translated by Alice Tetley-Paul et al. Macmillan, 709 pp., £35, November 2024, 978 1 0350 2075 1
Andy Beckett
You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024 by Tariq Ali. Verso, 799 pp., £35, November 2024, 978 1 80429 090 3
Jeremy Harding
On NLR
Dani Garavelli
Jailed, Failed, Forgotten
Lucie Elven
This Will Not End Well Neue Nationalgalerie, until 6 April 2025 Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well edited by Fredrik Liew. Steidl, 216 pp., £44, January 2023, 978 3 96999 058 2
Colm Tóibín
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce. Allen Lane, 384 pp., £10.99, February, 978 0 14 199873 2
Bee Wilson
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley. Penguin, 400 pp., £26.99, June 2024, 978 0 7352 2328 8
Vincent Bevins
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck, translated by David Colmer and David McKay. Bodley Head, 639 pp., £30, February 2024, 978 1 84792 704 0
Rahmane Idrissa
Colonisations: Notre Histoire edited by Pierre Singaravélou. Le Seuil, 720 pp., €35, September 2023, 978 2 02 149415 0
Anthony Vahni Capildeo
Three Poems
Tom Johnson
Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State by Caroline Burt and Richard Partington. Faber, 628 pp., £12.99, April, 978 0 571 31199 6
Elizabeth Goldring
At Compton Verney: Portrait Miniatures
James Romm
Strabo’s ‘Geography’: A Translation for the Modern World translated by Sarah Pothecary. Princeton, 1062 pp., £55, August 2024, 978 0 691 24313 9
Tim Parks
Flesh by David Szalay. Cape, 349 pp., £18.99, March, 978 0 224 09978 3
Nicholas Pearson
Diary: On the Chess Circuit
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