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Vol. 47 No. 16 · 11 September 2025
Letters
Sharon Footerman, Paul Dean, Benjamin Letzler, David Aneurin Morgan, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Mike Bond, George Cooke, David Russell, David Wengrow, William Myers, David Smith
Seamus Perry
Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker by Zachary Leader. Harvard, 449 pp., £29.95, May, 978 0 674 24839 7
Francis FitzGibbon
Short Cuts: Why Juries Matter
Kasia Boddy
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28 by Dorothy Parker. McNally Editions, 202 pp., £15.99, December 2024, 978 1 961341 25 8 Dorothy Parker: Poems by Dorothy Parker. Everyman, 206 pp., £20, March, 978 0 593 99217 3 Dorothy Parker in Hollywood by Gail Crowther. Gallery Books, 291 pp., £20, November 2024, 978 1 9821 8579 4
Ruby Hamilton
David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema by Mike Miley. Bloomsbury, 272 pp., £21.99, January, 979 8 7651 0289 3
Sarah Howe
Poem: ‘Fore/mother’
Emily Witt
Extremism and Radicalisation in the Manosphere: Beta Uprising by Deniese Kennedy-Kollar. Routledge, 152 pp., £42.99, September, 978 1 032 63107 3 Clown World: Four Years inside Andrew Tate’s Manosphere by Jamie Tahsin and Matt Shea. Quercus, 272 pp., £10.99, April, 978 1 5294 3784 3
Vivien Bird
At the British Museum: Richard Payne Knight’s Bequest
Tom Stevenson
The Mask Is Off
Dani Garavelli
Frankly by Nicola Sturgeon. Macmillan, 464 pp., £28, August, 978 1 0350 4021 6
Gazelle Mba
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Fourth Estate, 416 pp., £20, March, 978 0 00 868573 7
Ewan Gibbs
Goodbye to Grangemouth
Mike Jay
Shamanism: The Timeless Religion by Manvir Singh. Allen Lane, 304 pp., £25, May, 978 0 241 63841 5
Malcolm Gaskill
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne. Hamish Hamilton, 320 pp., £16.99, April, 978 0 241 51746 8
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Naked Gun’
Richard J. Evans
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s 20th Century by Dagmar Herzog. Princeton, 312 pp., £30, November 2024, 978 0 691 26170 6
Mendez
Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson. Picador, 312 pp., £10.99, April 2024, 978 1 0350 0633 5
Oliver Whang
Diary: Out Birding
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