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Vol. 47 No. 9 · 22 May 2025
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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