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may 2022 • issue 507
Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editor David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial & Marketing Assistant Michael Delgado Marketing Manager Constance Watson Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell
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diary 1 Ali Smith
power & money 5 Michael Burleigh
Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel 7 Carl Miller
Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for Our Wallets Brett Scott 8 David Anderson
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds Susie Alegre
architecture 11 William Boyd
Built in Chelsea: Two Millennia of Architecture and Townscape Dan Cruickshank 12 Jonathan Meades
Modern Buildings in Britain: A Gazetteer Owen Hatherley 14 Will Wiles
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy Charlotte Van den Broeck
art & music 15 David Boyd Haycock
The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars Frances Spalding 16 Alwyn Turner
Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop Bob Stanley
history 18 Marc Mulholland
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London Vic Gatrell 19 Peter Davidson
The Jesuits: A History Markus Friedrich 21 Lucy Lethbridge
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West Katie Hickman 22 Alexandra Gajda
The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty Helen Hackett
