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december 2022 / january 2023 • issue 514
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
diary 1 Joanna Kavenna
art 6 Freya Johnston
James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire Tim Clayton 8 James Hall
Picasso: The Self-Portraits Pascal Bonafoux 9 Frances Spalding
Looking to Sea: Britain Through the Eyes of Its Artists Lily Le Brun 11 Griselda Pollock
Hilma af Klint Julia Voss
literary lives 13 Carolyne Larrington
The Wife of Bath: A Biography Marion Turner 14 Norma Clarke
Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës Devoney Looser 16 Richard Davenport-Hines
The Hyancinth Girl: T S Eliot’s Hidden Muse Lyndall Gordon • Mary & Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story Mary Trevelyan & Erica Wagner 18 Caroline Moorehead
Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides Paul Clements 19 Henriette Korthals Altes
Getting Lost Annie Ernaux
the state we’re in 20 Howard Davies
Megathreats: The Ten Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them Nouriel Roubini 21 Donald Rayfield
New books on the war in Ukraine 23 Andrew Small
Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire Raffaello Pantucci & Alexandros Petersen 24 Paul Morland
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route Sally Hayden
biography & memoirs 25 Avi Shilon
Bibi Benjamin Netanyahu 26 Abhimanyu Arni
Guru to the World: The Life & Legacy of Vivekananda Ruth Harris 28 William Kuhn
Wild: The Life of Peter Beard Graham Boynton 29 Wendy Holden
The Owner’s Mother Loves My Stuff: A Journalist’s Life as I Know It David Robson
music & film 30 Charles Shaar Murray
The Philosophy of Modern Song Bob Dylan 31 Graham Daseler
Hollywood: The Oral History Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson (edd) 32 Christopher Silvester
Cinema Speculation Quentin Tarantino
notebook 34 Claire Harman Katherine Mansfield & the Movies
history 36 Bernard Porter
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire Caroline Elkins 38 Steven Nadler
The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy Dmitri Levitin 40 John D Hosler
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East Nicholas Morton
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