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Vol. 47 No. 20 · 6 November 2025
Alexander Clapp
Scam: Inside South-East Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds by Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo. Verso, 224 pp., £17.99, July, 978 1 80429 690 5
Letters
Glyn Ford, Paul Atkin, James Hamilton-Paterson, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Brian Reffin Smith, Mat Snow, Pedro Archard, Simon Evans, Mark Gillard, Lee Gillette
James Lasdun
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser. Little, Brown, 466 pp., £25, June, 978 0 349 12754 5
Christian Lorentzen
Pan by Michael Clune. Fern, 320 pp., £16.99, July, 978 1 911717 61 4
Jon Day
Hearth of Darkness by Matt Blake. Elliott & Thompson, 272 pp., £16.99, October, 978 1 78396 915 9 How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession by Caitlin Blackwell Baines. Profile, 303 pp., £22, October, 978 1 80522 148 7
John-Paul Stonard
At the National Gallery: View from a Prison Window
Francis Gooding
Two-Headed Doctor: Listening for Ghosts in Dr John’s ‘Gris-Gris’ by David Toop. Strange Attractor, 397 pp., £23, November 2024, 978 1 913689 60 5
Em Hogan
Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art by Matt Lodder. Yale, 224 pp., £25, November 2024, 978 0 300 26939 0
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’
Rosemary Hill
Utterly Lazy and Inattentive: Martin Parr in Words and Pictures by Martin Parr and Wendy Jones. Particular, 306 pp., £30, September, 978 0 241 74082 8
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell. Apollo, 438 pp., £25, February, 978 1 80110 888 1
Asim Qureshi
Short Cuts: Misuses of the Terrorism Act
Chris Townsend
Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist by Ryan Hanley. Yale, 248 pp., £18.99, February, 978 0 300 27235 2
Alice Spawls
On Nicholas Lanier
Tony Wood
La cuarta ola: Líderes, fanáticos y oportunistas en la nueva era de la extrema derecha by Ariel Goldstein. Marea Editorial, 168 pp., Arg$24,900, September 2024, 978 987 823 055 9 Contra la amenaza fantasma: La derecha radical latinoamericana y la reinvención de un enemigo común by Farid Kahhat. Planeta, 170 pp., S/. 39.90, February 2024, 978 612 5037 28 2 Historia mínima de las derechas latinoamericanas by Ernesto Bohoslavsky. El Colegio de México, 269 pp., Mex$270, February 2023, 978 987 826 759 3
Matthew Carr
In Arica
Pablo Scheffer
The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages by Shane Bobrycki. Princeton, 336 pp., £35, November 2024, 978 0 691 18969 7
Lucy Wooding
Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England by Joanne Paul. Michael Joseph, 604 pp., £30, May, 978 1 4059 5360 3
Peter Adamson
The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation by Moses Maimonides, translated and edited by Lenn Goodman and Phillip Lieberman. Stanford, 620 pp., £68, May 2024, 978 0 8047 8738 3
Patricia Lockwood
Poem: ‘Garnets’
Leo Robson
Diary: What I Saw at the Movies
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