Vol. 45 No. 11 · 1 June 2023

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Cover Artist

Cressida Bell

Neal Ascherson

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World, 1848-49 by Christopher Clark. Allen Lane, 873 pp., £35, April, 978 0 241 34766 9

Letters

Philip Kitcher, J.P. Loo, Patricia Emison, Charles Lucas, Connah McCarron-Roberts, Tony Sharpe, Shaun Spiers, Nick Wray

Peter Geoghegan

Short Cuts: At NatCon London

Tom Stevenson

One More Term

Anne Wagner

At Tate Modern: Mária Bartuszová

Colin Burrow

Rules: A Short History of What We Live By by Lorraine Daston. Princeton, 359 pp., £25, September 2022, 978 0 691 15698 9

Freya Johnston

Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field by Carolyn Dever. Princeton, 261 pp., £30, July 2022, 978 0 691 20344 7

Jamie McKendrick

Poem: ‘A Line Purloined from Paul Bowles’

John Gallagher

The Talk of the Town: Information and Community in 16th-Century Switzerland by Carla Roth. Oxford, 164 pp., £75, February 2022, 978 0 19 284645 7

Krys Lee

On Hallyu

Stephen Mulhall

Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality by David Edmonds. Princeton, 380 pp., £28, April, 978 0 691 22523 4

Stephanie Burt

On Brandon Som

Emily Wilson

The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses and Fragments by Epictetus, translated by Robin Waterfield. Chicago, 460 pp., £44, October 2022, 978 0 226 76933 2

Eric Foner

Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie. Basic, 497 pp., £25, December 2022, 978 1 5416 7280 2

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce

I Am Still with You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History by Emmanuel Iduma. William Collins, 230 pp., £16.99, February, 978 0 00 843072 6

Ange Mlinko

Poem: ‘To My Hummingbird’

Lucie Elven

Portrait of an Unknown Lady by María Gainza, translated by Thomas Bunstead. Harvill Secker, 188 pp., £14.99, March 2022, 978 1 78730 324 9

Gaby Wood

Diary: Lucian Freud’s Printmaking

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