march 2023 • issue 516
Editor Nancy Sladek
Deputy Editor Tom Fleming
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Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman
Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack
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diary
- Richard Smyth
travellers
- Lucy Moore
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire Nandini Das
Robert Bickers
Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: e Life and Times of omas Manning Edward Weech
Peter Davidson
A Grand Tour Journal 1820-1822: e Awakening of the Man Edward Georey Stanley
man & earth
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
- e Earth Transformed: An Untold History Peter Frankopan
Oliver Balch
Urban Jungle: Wilding the City Ben Wilson
philosophy
Julian Baggini
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope Sarah Bakewell
- Jonathan Rée A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900–60 Nikhil Krishnan
corridors of power
Angus Reilly
- G-Man: J Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century Beverly Gage
Malachi O’Doherty Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle Shane Ross
Michael White
Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir Frank Field
art & photography
Dominic Green
Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism Charles Darwent
Rosamund Bartlett
Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin Aglaya K Glebova
way of the world
- David Laws
Follow the Money: How Much Does Britain Cost? Paul Johnson
