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Vol. 47 No. 18 · 9 October 2025
Letters
Margo Munro Kerr, Roger Smith, Clive Tempest, Stephen Edgar, Timon Screech, Dominic Lash, Harald E.L. Prins, Benjamin Letzler, Harry White, David Pearce, Scott Herrick
David Runciman
Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution, 1945-2016 by Tom McTague. Pan Macmillan, 546 pp., £25, September, 978 1 5290 8309 5
Yun Sheng
Short Cuts: China’s Gen Z
Conor Gearty
Unwelcome Remnant
David Todd
Now, the People! Revolution in the 21st Century by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, translated by David Broder. Verso, 300 pp., £22, April, 978 1 80429 794 0
Erin Maglaque
Nine Hundred Conclusions by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, translated by and Brian P. Copenhaver. Harvard, 611 pp., £29.95, March, 978 0 674 29891 0 The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Sublime Language by Edward Wilson-Lee. William Collins, 273 pp., £25, January, 978 0 00 862179 7 Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age by Ada Palmer. Apollo, 745 pp., £30, February, 978 1 0359 1012 0
Ben Campbell
In the Shoebox
James Meek
Computers that want things
Stephen Mulhall
Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor. Harvard, 620 pp., £31.95, June, 978 0 674 29608 4
Josephine Quinn
At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’
Thomas Laqueur
Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound by Kate Kennedy. Apollo, 468 pp., £10.99, August, 978 1 80328 704 1
Colin Burrow
The Letters of Muriel Spark, Vol. 1: 1944-63 edited by Dan Gunn. Virago, 679 pp., £35, August, 978 0 349 01434 0 Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark by Frances Wilson. Bloomsbury, 408 pp., £25, June, 978 1 5266 6303 0
Jessica Olin
Free: My Search for Meaning by Amanda Knox. Headline, 283 pp., £22, March, 978 1 0354 2815 1 The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox produced by K.J. Steinberg. Disney+, August
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Highest 2 Lowest’
Neal Ascherson
The Indefatigable Asa Briggs by Adam Sisman. William Collins, 485 pp., £30, August, 978 0 00 855641 9
Maureen N. McLane
Poem: ‘Clearing’
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Penguin, 511 pp., £14.99, August, 978 0 14 199620 2
Blake Morrison
Flashlight by Susan Choi. Cape, 448 pp., £20, July, 978 1 78733 512 7
Patrick Cockburn
Diary: Interviewing Hitler
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