september 2022 • issue 511
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
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Classified Advertising David Sturge
Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith
Cover Illustration Chris Riddell
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diary
- Alberto Manguel
biography
Anne Perkins
- Harold Wilson: The Winner Nick Thomas-Symonds
- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family Alison Bashford
9 Tim Blanning Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self Andrea Wulf
10 Lucy Lethbridge
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman Lucy Worsley
british isles
12 Robert Colls
- Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain Richard Vinen
13 Marc Mulholland
- On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World Sean Connolly
14 Philip Parker
- Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings Thomas Williams
literary life
- Richard Davenport-Hines Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises A N Wilson
Heather Clark
- Memoirs Robert Lowell
19 Richard Canning City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley Phil Baker
20 Patricia T O’Conner
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A–Z of Literary Persuasion Louise Willder
mind & body
22 Salley Vickers
And Finally: Matters of Life & Death Henry Marsh • Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology A J Lees
- Nina Power Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It Richard V Reeves
24 Daisy Dunn
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body Caroline Vout
