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Vol. 47 No. 5 · 20 March 2025
Letters
Louise O’Hare, Stuart O’Hara, Harry Penfold, Peter Withey, Brian Reffin Smith, David Zeitlyn, Christopher Smith, Benjamin Ralph, Thomas Jones, Pauline Asher, John Cunningham, John Jolliffe, Rachel Kyne
Colin Burrow
The Brothers Grimm: A Biography by Ann Schmiesing. Yale, 336 pp., £25, January, 978 0 300 22175 6
Barbara Newman
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV by Helen Castor. Allen Lane, 652 pp., £35, October 2024, 978 0 241 41932 8
James Stafford
The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation by Isaac Nakhimovsky. Princeton, 314 pp., £35, July 2024, 978 0 691 19519 3
Daniel Trilling
Short Cuts: Labour’s Immigration Policy
Sheila Fitzpatrick
To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power by Sergey Radchenko. Cambridge, 760 pp., £30, May 2024, 978 1 108 47735 2 The World of the Cold War 1945-91 by Vladislav Zubok. Pelican, 521 pp., £25, May, 978 0 241 69614 9
Paul Taylor
AI Wars
Tony Wood
Cinco días en Moscú: Mario Vargas Llosa y el socialismo soviético by Carlos Aguirre and Kristina Buynova. Reino de Almagro, 185 pp., £12.50, January 2024, 978 612 49274 1 6
Paula Bohince
Two Poems
Jan-Werner Müller
Brothers of Italy and the Rise of the Italian National Conservative Right under Giorgia Meloni by Salvatore Vassallo and Rinaldo Vignati. Palgrave Macmillan, 284 pp., £109.99, August 2024, 978 3 031 52188 1
Alex Harvey
The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger edited by Nathalie Morris and Claire Smith. BFI, 206 pp., £30, October 2023, 978 1 83871 917 3
Freya Johnston
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen by Rory Muir. Yale, 407 pp., £25, February 2024, 978 0 300 26960 4
Adam Mars-Jones
Les Trois Femmes de ma vie by Dominique Fernandez. Philippe Rey, 257 pp., €20, October 2024, 978 2 38482 114 3
Thomas Meaney
Goodbye Black Zero?
Ange Mlinko
Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet. Tuskar Rock, 406 pp., £20, October 2024, 978 1 80081 505 6
Nandini Das
Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh. John Murray, 399 pp., £10.99, January, 978 1 5293 4926 9
Laleh Khalili
Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son by Lionel Barber. Allen Lane, 388 pp., £30, October 2024, 978 0 241 58272 5
Francis Gooding
At the British Museum: Picasso’s Prints
Michael Hofmann
Monsieur Teste by Paul Valéry, translated by Charlotte Mandell. NYRB, 79 pp., £14.99, December 2024, 978 1 68137 892 3
Antonia Hitchens
Diary: At CPAC
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