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Vol. 48 No. 7 · 23 April 2026
Ian Penman
Surf’s Up: Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys by Peter Doggett. New Modern, 420 pp., £25, November 2025, 978 1 917923 34 7
Letters
Mark Padmore, Ira Braus, Peter Hoskins, Steve Penny, Chris Paparella, Ronni Lundy, Don LePan, Mat Snow, Peter Rowland, Colin Lovelace
Matthew Bevis
A Day like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler by Nathan Kernan. FSG, 503 pp., £30, September 2025, 978 0 374 28117 5
Elizabeth Goldring
At the National Gallery: Holbein and Henry James
James Lasdun
Reality Instruction
Paul Theroux
Gun Love
Eyal Weizman
All they will find is sand
Francis FitzGibbon
Short Cuts: Judicial Activism
Sarah Resnick
I Don’t Care by Ágota Kristóf, translated by Chris Andrews. Penguin, 96 pp., £10.99, August 2025, 978 0 241 77405 2
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘The Maze’
Christian Lorentzen
Transcription by Ben Lerner. Granta, 130 pp., £14.99, April, 978 1 80351 380 5
Azadeh Moaveni
Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power by Sonia Purnell. Virago, 512 pp., £10.99, September 2025, 978 0 349 01475 3
Pratinav Anil
Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India by Srinath Raghavan. Yale, 367 pp., £25, May 2025, 978 0 300 27852 1
Gaby Wood
At the Movies: ‘Rose of Nevada’
Rosemary Hill
Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Maria Cosway by Diane Boucher. Unicorn, 351 pp., £27.99, June 2025, 978 1 916846 78 4 Souvenirs by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. David Zwirner, 184 pp., £10.95, May 2025, 978 1 64423 162 3
Francis Gooding
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way out of the Stone Age by Steven Mithen. Profile, 532 pp., £12.99, February 2025, 978 1 80081 160 7
Charles Glass
Diary: Beirut, Now and Then
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