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december 2019 / january 2020 • issue 482
Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial & Marketing Assistant Michael Delgado Marketing Jared Spears • Constance Watson Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell
diary 1 Frances Wilson
art 6 Catherine Fletcher
Michelangelo, God’s Architect William E Wallace 8 F rances Spalding
Voyaging Out: British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties Carolyn Trant 9 Ke vin Jackson
Yellow: The History of a Color Michel Pastoureau
the sea 12 Margarette Lincoln
The Boundless Sea David Abulafia 13 Rose George
F loating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait Bathsheba Demuth 15 Mathe w Lyons
Sailing School: Navigating Science & Skill 1550–1800 Margaret E Schotte
the state we’re in 16 William Keegan
Liberalism at Large: The World according to the Economist Alexander Zevin 17 Ber nard Porter
Island Stories: Britain & Its History in the Age of Brexit David Reynolds 18 Rober t Colls
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation Colin Grant • The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment Amelia Gentleman
20 Joanna Bourke
Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS Azadeh Moaveni 21 Gr ace Blakeley
Women vs Capitalism Vicky Pryce
footprints 22 Paul Theroux on the novels of Nathanael West
history 24 Tony Spawforth
The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe Barry Cunliffe 25 Bar naby Crowcroft
Slavery & Islam Jonathan A C Brown 27 Jonathan S umption
The Brothers York Thomas Penn • Richard III Michael Hicks 28 N eil Armstrong
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Won the War Simon Parkin 30 C hristopher Andrew
Post Wall Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989 Kristina Spohr 31 David Gelber
The Br aganzas: The Rise & Fall of the Ruling Dynasties of Portugal & Brazil, 1640–1910 Malyn Newitt
high life 34 Lisa Hilton
Diamond Je welry Diana Scarisbrick 35 N icky Haslam
Condé Nast: The Man & His Empire Susan Ronald 36 James S tourton
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose – Volume Two, 1979–2014 D R Thorpe (ed) 38 Mir anda Seymour
The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure & the Country House Weekend Adrian Tinniswood • What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History Brian Fagan & Nadia Durrani
statesmen 40 Mark Jarrett
Metternich: Strategist & Visionary Wolfram Siemann 42 T H Br een
Thomas Jefferson’s Education Alan Taylor
memoir 44 Andrew Hussey
Disturbance Philippe Lançon
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