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art 25 William Whyte

William Morris Anna Mason (ed) 26 James Hall

The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon & Narrative David Ekserdjian

philosophy 28 Steven Nadler

Spinoza’s Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics Clare Carlisle

literary lives 30 Dennis Duncan

Speaking East: The Strange & Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou Andrew Hussey 31 Ben Hutchinson

Speak, Silence: In Search of W G Sebald Carole Angier 32 Roberta Klimt

Making Darkness Light: The Lives & Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska

history 34 Dmitri Levitin

The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800 Christopher S Celenza 35 Lucy Wooding

Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 Clare Jackson 37 Rebecca Earle

Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico William B Taylor

general 39 Frances Wilson

The Heroine with 1,001 Faces Maria Tatar 40 Jonathan Sumption

Whatever Happened to Tradition? History, Belonging & the Future of the West Tim Stanley 41 James Stourton

Noble Ambitions: The Fall & Rise of the Post-War Country House Adrian Tinniswood 43 Linda Porter

Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts & Their Makers Mary Wellesley

fiction 44 Keith Miller

Crossroads Jonathan Franzen 45 Leo Robson

Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney 47 Frank Lawton

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth Wole Soyinka 48 Sheena Joughin

Oh William! Elizabeth Strout 49 Anthony Cummins

A Passage North Anuk Arudpragasam 50 Paul Abbott

The Morning Star Karl Ove Knausgaard 51 N J Stallard

Burntcoat Sarah Hall 52 Houman Barekat

A Calling for Charlie Barnes Joshua Ferris 53 Ian Critchley

Making Nice Ferdinand Mount 54 Kevin Power

Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead

notebook 55 Alan Taylor Westward Ho!

fiction in brief 56 Are We Having Fun Yet? Lucy Mangan • Wildlord Philip

Womack • After the Sun Jonas Eika

crime 58 Natasha Cooper

silenced voices 60 Lucy Popescu Meral Simşek & Yavuz Ekinci

bookends 64 Matthew Rubery The coming of the podiobook

competition 46 Fergus Butler-Gallie sets a monthly challenge

59 LR Bookshop 38 Letters 24 Crossword

october 2021 | Literary Review 3