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Vol. 47 No. 22 · 4 December 2025
Letters
Lane Morgan, Victoria Wang, Russell Pittman, Andy Beckett, Geoff Hatherick, Benjamin Letzler, Martin Staniforth, Toby Williamson, Peter Woolstencroft, David Bell
Clare Bucknell
Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry by Adam Plunkett. Farrar, Straus, 500 pp., £30, March, 978 0 374 28208 0
Tom White
Short Cuts: A Bridge across the Humber
Ferdinand Mount
Undaunted Mind: The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin by Kevin J. Hayes. Oxford, 480 pp., £30.99, September, 978 0 19 755426 5 Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist by Richard Munson. Norton, 288 pp., £23.99, December 2024, 978 0 393 88223 0
T.J. Clark
The Job
Malcolm Gaskill
A Common Grave: Being Catholic in English America by Susan Juster. North Carolina, 310 pp., £39.99, June, 978 1 4696 8622 6
Anne Higonnet
At the V&A: ‘Marie-Antoinette Style’
Jan-Werner Müller
Caesar wept
Nick Laird
Poem: ‘The Badger’
James Meek
Ten-Foot Chopsticks
Julian Bell
At the Royal Academy: On Kerry James Marshall
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
The Strand: A Biography by Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin. Manchester, 272 pp., £25, February, 978 1 5261 7911 1
David Todd
The War Memoirs by Charles de Gaulle, translated by Jonathan Griffin and Richard Howard. Simon & Schuster, 976 pp., £30, December 2024, 978 1 6680 6120 6
Susannah Clapp
On Jean Rhys
Hal Foster
Surrealism and Anti-Fascism: Anthology edited by Karin Althaus, Adrian Djukić, Ara H. Merjian, Matthias Mühling and Stephanie Weber. Hatje Cantz, 680 pp., £54, March, 978 3 7757 5877 2
Terry Eagleton
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods. Chicago, 294 pp., £24, November, 978 0 226 82976 0
Maureen N. McLane
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett. Fitzcarraldo, 158 pp., £12.99, October, 978 1 80427 193 3
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Frankenstein’
Michael Hofmann
The Eternal Dice: Selected Poems by César Vallejo, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. New Directions, 155 pp., £13.99, May, 978 0 8112 3766 6
Nicholas Penny
Diary: Church Monuments
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