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Vol. 47 No. 8 · 8 May 2025
Anne Enright
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner. Weidenfeld, 809 pp., £20, March, 978 1 3996 0674 5
Letters
David Bell, Jonathan Tinsley, Norman Rimmell, Andrew Battarbee, Nora L. Howley, Isabel Davis, Thomas Meaney
T.J. Clark
Too Soon to Know: The Spectacle in Practice
Colin Kidd
Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal by Quentin Skinner. Cambridge, 320 pp., £35, January, 978 1 107 02773 2
Alan Hollinghurst
Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1945-59 edited by Peter Parker. Penguin, 445 pp., £30, May 2024, 978 0 241 37060 5 Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1960-67 edited by Peter Parker. Penguin, 416 pp., £30, September 2024, 978 0 241 68370 5
Julian Barnes
The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream by Blake Gopnik. Ecco, 382 pp., £28, May, 978 0 06 328403 6
Michael Ledger-Lomas
William Morris: Selected Writings edited by Ingrid Hanson. Oxford, 632 pp., £110, July 2024, 978 0 19 289481 6
Emily LaBarge
At the Barbican: On Noah Davis
Jack Shenker
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis by Nick Bano. Verso, 232 pp., £15.99, April, 978 1 80429 833 6
Lucie Elven
The Edge of the Alphabet by Janet Frame. Fitzcarraldo, 296 pp., £12.99, August 2024, 978 1 80427 118 6
Stephen Sedley
Not Terminal
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy by Tim Lankester. Policy, 227 pp., £19.99, May 2024, 978 1 4473 7135 9
Tom Shippey
The Mercian Chronicles: King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State AD 630-918 by Max Adams. Head of Zeus, 448 pp., £25, February, 978 1 83893 325 8
James Butler
Short Cuts: On Pope Francis
Robert Cioffi
The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids by Pierre Tallet and Mark Lehner. Thames and Hudson, 319 pp., £30, January 2023, 978 0 500 05211 2
Hannah Rose Woods
Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age by Simeon Koole. Chicago, 352 pp., £28, July 2024, 978 0 226 83434 4
Maureen N. McLane
Poem: ‘The Historians’
Sarah Resnick
Stay with Me by Hanne Ørstavik, translated by Martin Aitken. And Other Stories, 216 pp., £14.99, September 2024, 978 1 916751 08 8
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘La Haine’
Andrew O’Hagan
Diary: Whitney lives!
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