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Vol. 47 No. 12 · 10 July 2025
Patricia Lockwood
The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, edited by Peter K. Steinberg. Faber, 812 pp., £35, September 2024, 978 0 571 37764 0
Letters
Elizabeth Wilson, Lee Gillette, Gundars Rudzitis, Mark Wonnacott, Richard Norton-Taylor, Andrew Dobson, Gregory Convertito, Nicholas Tracy
Tareq Baconi
Short Cuts: Gaza under Siege
Andy Beckett
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands. Weidenfeld, 453 pp., £25, April, 978 1 4746 2074 1
Don Paterson
Two Poems
Jonathan Healey
Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649-60 by Alice Hunt. Faber, 493 pp., £12.99, June, 978 0 571 30320 5 The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece. Yale, 464 pp., £35, June 2024, 978 0 300 21149 8
Kevin Okoth
Brutalism by Achille Mbembe, translated by Steven Corcoran. Duke, 181 pp., £19.99, January 2024, 978 1 4780 2558 0
Jacqueline Rose
On Cora Kaplan
Alexander Bevilacqua
Strangers Within: The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Trading Elite by Francisco Bethencourt. Princeton, 602 pp., £38, May 2024, 978 0 691 20991 3
Adam Mars-Jones
Powsels and Thrums: A Tapestry of a Creative Life by Alan Garner. Fourth Estate, 229 pp., £14.99, October 2024, 978 0 00 872521 1
Mark Ford
Poem: ‘Helpless’
Malin Hay
In Thrall by Jane DeLynn. Divided, 267 pp., £11.99, November 2024, 978 1 7395161 6 1
David Denby
Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals by Ronnie A. Grinberg. Princeton, 367 pp., £30, May 2024, 978 0 691 19309 0
Katrina Forrester
Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper. Princeton, 564 pp., £28, May 2024, 978 1 942130 93 2
Rosemary Hill
At the Driehaus Museum: Tulips, Fritillaries and Auriculas
Blake Morrison
The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin. Riverrun, 333 pp., £22, May, 978 1 5294 3511 5
Daniella Shreir
Diary: What happens at Cannes
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