Vol. 47 No. 9 · 22 May 2025

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Cover Artist

Johnny Bunting

Ferdinand Mount

What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea by Fara Dabhoiwala. Allen Lane, 472 pp., £30, March, 978 0 241 34747 8

Letters

Jef Smith, Conrad Teixeira, Marco de Waard, Pavel Iosad, Adrien Sevaux, Killian O’Donnell, Tim Marr, Alexander Jabbari, Lesley Harrison, Paul Romney, Rex Davies, Paul Frecker, Tom Crewe

James Butler

Short Cuts: Labour at the Cliff Edge

David Runciman

Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right by Quinn Slobodian. Allen Lane, 279 pp., £25, April, 978 0 241 77498 4

Clare Bucknell

Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute by Nicholas Fox Weber. Knopf, 656 pp., £33, April, 978 0 307 96159 4

Adam Thirlwell

Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade, translated by Katrina Dodson. Fitzcarraldo, 318 pp., £12.99, May 2023, 978 1 80427 026 4

Julian Barnes

At the Royal Academy: Victor Hugo's Drawings

David Thomson

The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick by John Bleasdale. Kentucky, 257 pp., £31.50, December 2024, 978 1 9859 0119 3

Adam Mars-Jones

Audition by Katie Kitamura. Fern, 208 pp., £18.99, April, 978 1 911717 32 4
Lazarus Man by Richard Price. Corsair, 352 pp., £22, January, 978 1 4721 5991 5

Maureen N. McLane

Specimen Days by Walt Whitman, edited by Max Cavitch. Oxford, 336 pp., £8.99, September 2023, 978 0 19 886138 6

Michael Kulikowski

Hannibal and Scipio: Parallel Lives by Simon Hornblower. Cambridge, 502 pp., £35, September 2024, 978 1 009 45335 6

Robert Crawford

Two Poems

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill and the Second World War by Kit Kowol. Oxford, 336 pp., £30, September 2024, 978 0 19 886849 1

Rosa Lyster

At Crufts

Stefan Collini

Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian by Michael Braddick. Verso, 308 pp., £35, February, 978 1 83976 077 8

Rosemary Hill

At the Miho Museum: Habits of Seeing

Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold. Doubleday, 496 pp., £25, March, 978 0 85752 731 8

Colm Tóibín

The Pope and Pachamama

Stephanie Burt

On Forrest Gander

Jérôme Tubiana

Diary: Safe and Unsafe Ports

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