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Vol. 47 No. 23 · 25 December 2025
Amia Srinivasan
The Impossible Patient
Letters
Neil Foxlee, Jana Bacevic, Malcolm Andrew, Isobel Grundy, Don Lock, Adam Plunkett
Jacqueline Rose
When the Messiah Comes
Bee Wilson
Judy Garland: The Voice of MGM by Scott Brogan. Rowman & Littlefield, 404 pp., £50, August, 978 1 4930 8654 2
Andrew O’Hagan
Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography by Tom Arnold-Forster. Princeton, 353 pp., £30, July, 978 0 691 21521 1
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘Lieu Vague’
John Lanchester
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt. Bodley Head, 248 pp., £25, April, 978 1 84792 827 6 The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim. Norton, 261 pp., £25, December 2024, 978 1 324 08671 0 Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination by Karen Hao. Allen Lane, 482 pp., £25, May, 978 0 241 67892 3 Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson. Pan Macmillan, 319 pp., £10.99, July, 978 1 0350 3824 4
James Butler
Short Cuts: Labour’s Complacency
Nick Richardson
Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments and the Birth of Modern Science by Philip Ball. Yale, 256 pp., £30, September, 978 0 300 28087 6
Michael Wood
Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography by Steven Connor. Reaktion, 200 pp., £25, July, 978 1 83639 087 9
T.J. Clark
A Kouros at the Met
Jeremy Harding
The Palestinians by Jonathan Dimbleby and Don McCullin. Quartet, 256 pp., £25, October, 978 1 06 840770 3
Helen Pfeifer
The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King by Christopher de Bellaigue. Bodley Head, 272 pp., £22, March, 978 1 84792 742 2
Alice Hunt
The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI & I by Clare Jackson. Allen Lane, 524 pp., £35, August, 978 0 241 61127 2 Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King by Gareth Russell. William Collins, 478 pp., £25, February, 978 0 00 866085 7
Deborah Friedell
The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary by Kate Loveman. Cambridge, 238 pp., £22, April, 978 1 009 55411 4
Susannah Clapp
Not Quite Music
Ange Mlinko
Penitential Cries by Susan Howe. Norton, 96 pp., £12.99, October, 978 0 8112 3982 0
Daniel Soar
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon. Cape, 293 pp., £22, October, 978 1 78733 633 9
Clare Bucknell
At the Museo Byron: Byron and Teresa
Jo Applin
Diary: Louise Bourgeois’s Suitcase
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