april 2023 • issue 517
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
Classied Advertising David Sturge
Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith
Cover Illustration Chris Riddell
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diary
- Dennis Duncan
history
Richard Vinen
Killing atcher: e IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown Rory Carroll
John Kampfner Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990 Katja Hoyer
Mike Rapport
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849 Christopher Clark
John Foot
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain Paul Preston
Rana Mitter
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conict and Concord Philip Snow
- Malise Ruthven e Caliph and the Imam: e Making of Sunnism and Shiism Toby Matthiesen
Jonathan Rée
e French Resistance and Its Legacy Rod Kedward
stage & screen
- Kirsten Tambling Searching for Juliet: e Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine Sophie Duncan
Simon Heer
Masquerade: e Lives of Noël Coward Oliver Soden
art & photography
Norma Clarke
Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great Rosalind P Blakesley
- James Cahill Anities Brian Dillon
Salley Vickers
e Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World Jennifer Higgie
the state we’re in
- Alan Ryan
Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? Daniel Chandler
Howard Davies
We Need to Talk About Ination: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years Stephen D King
