november 2022 s issue 513
Editor Nancy Sladek
Deputy Editor Tom Fleming
Assistant Editor David Gelber
Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman
Michael Burleigh s Sara Wheeler s 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
- James Campbell
art & architecture
Adrian Tinniswood
The Artist’s Studio: A Cultural History James Hall
Jerry White
London: The Great Transformation 1860–1920 Philip Davies
- Gillian Tindall
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past James Stourton
the state we’re in
- Carl Miller The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World Max Fisher
- David Anderson Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters Adam Wagner
- Simon Briscoe
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers Georgina Sturge
ancient rome
Antony Spawforth
Crassus: The First Tycoon Peter Stothard
- Bijan Omrani
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome Harry Sidebottom
heaven & earth
- Costica Bradatan Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion Peter Heather
- Nigel Andrew Country Church Monuments C B Newham
20 Daniel Rey
The Word: On the Translation of the Bible John Barton
notebook
- Florence Hazrat On the evolution of the exclamation mark
literary lives
24 Tim Smith-Laing The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club Christopher de Hamel
- Miranda Seymour Between Friends: The Letters of Vera Brittain & Winifred Holtby Elaine and English Showalter (edd)
