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Vol. 47 No. 11 · 26 June 2025
Andrew O’Hagan
Notes to John by Joan Didion. Fourth Estate, 208 pp., £18.99, April, 978 0 00 876724 2 Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik. Atlantic, 344 pp., £10.99, July, 978 1 80546 394 8 The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne. Grove, 385 pp., £10.99, June 2024, 978 1 80471 057 9 The Uptown Local: Joy, Death and Joan Didion by Cory Leadbeater. Fleet, 213 pp., £12.99, June 2024, 978 0 349 12717 0
Letters
Benjamin Letzler, Simon Skinner, Fara Dabhoiwala, Matt Barker, Michael Neill, Steven Spencer, Randall Balmer, Ferdinand Saumarez Smith, Stephen Goranson
Tom Stevenson
Short Cuts: Ready for War?
William Davies
TV Meets Fruit Machine
Gazelle Mba
At White Cube: On Richard Hunt
Edmund Gordon
The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the Other 99 per Cent by Conor Niland. Penguin, 294 pp., £10.99, May, 978 0 241 99807 6 The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay by Christopher Clarey. John Murray, 356 pp., £22, May, 978 1 3998 1150 7 The Roger Federer Effect: Rivals, Friends, Fans and How the Maestro Changed Their Lives by Simon Cambers and Simon Graf. Pitch, 287 pp., £14.99, January 2024, 978 1 80150 383 9 Searching for Novak: The Man behind the Enigma by Mark Hodgkinson. Cassell, 303 pp., £10.99, June, 978 1 78840 520 1
Steven Shapin
The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius by Patchen Barss. Atlantic, 337 pp., £25, November 2024, 978 1 83895 932 6
Christian Lorentzen
Mayor of New York
Jenny Turner
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Fitzcarraldo, 326 pp., £14.99, September 2024, 978 1 80427 108 7
Helen Pfeifer
Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan by Ruby Lal. Yale, 248 pp., £11.99, April, 978 0 300 28195 8
Tom Crewe
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong. Cape, 397 pp., £20, May, 978 1 78733 540 0
Dani Garavelli
‘Bang! I was out’
Paul Farley
Poem: ‘A Rewilding’
Bee Wilson
Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino. Century, 369 pp., £25, October 2024, 978 1 5299 1262 3
Adam Shatz
At the Pompidou: ‘Paris Noir’
Francesca Wade
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy edited by Erica Ciallela and Philip S. Palmer. DelMonico, 304 pp., £44.99, December 2024, 978 1 63681 135 2 Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters by Deborah Parker. Harvard, 170 pp., £20.95, October 2024, 978 0 674 29981 8
Jonathan Meades
The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British 20th Century by Owen Hatherley. Allen Lane, 596 pp., £35, March, 978 0 241 37820 5
Niela Orr
Sinnermen
Martyn Rady
Augustus the Strong, Ruler of Poland and Saxony: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning. Allen Lane, 412 pp., £30, October 2024, 978 0 241 70514 8
Peter Talbot
Diary: Gulf Contracts
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