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Vol. 48 No. 11 · 25 June 2026

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Steven Shapin

Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs by Alec Nevala-Lee. Norton, 338 pp., £23.99, July 2025, 978 1 324 07510 3

Letters

Kevin Morris, Katie da Cunha Lewin, Lùcas Mackle, Hana Loftus, Peter Singer, Erin L. Thompson, James Womack, Ben Campbell, Martin Spence

Adam Thirlwell

Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev by Maxim Gorky, translated by Bryan Karetnyk. Fitzcarraldo, 196 pp., £14.99, September 2025, 978 1 80427 197 1

J.S. Tennant

Short Cuts: In Cuba

Daisy Hay

The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue by Meghan Kobza. Yale, 368 pp., £25, May, 978 0 300 27621 3

Simon Skinner

The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson. Little Brown, 608 pp., £12.99, May, 978 0 349 14573 0

Ruby Hamilton

At the Movies: Screwball Comedies

Zain Samir

War on the Shia

Hester van Hensbergen

Big Ag

David Todd

The First Fascist: The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Morès by Sergio Luzzatto. Allen Lane, 488 pp., £30, February, 978 0 241 71581 9

Christopher Kelly

Augustine the African by Catherine Conybeare. Profile, 268 pp., £25, August 2025, 978 1 78816 750 5

John-Paul Stonard

At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: On Georg Baselitz

Dinah Birch

The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge. Daunt, 284 pp., £10.99, March, 978 1 917092 37 1An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge. Daunt, 288 pp., £10.99, March, 978 1 917092 50 0

Joanna Biggs

Famesick: A Memoir by Lena Dunham. Fourth Estate, 416 pp., £18.99, April, 978 0 00 838421 0

Stephanie Burt

Two Poems

Mark Ford

Only Sing by John Berryman, edited by Shane McCrae. Faber, 166 pp., £12.99, January, 978 0 571 40013 3

Andrew O’Hagan

At the NPG: Portraits of Marilyn

John Lahr

When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy by David Margolick. Schocken, 388 pp., £30, November 2025, 978 0 8052 4255 3

Philippa Conlon

Helm by Sarah Hall. Faber, 346 pp., £9.99, April, 978 0 571 38358 0

Patricia Lockwood

Diary: A Tradcath Wedding

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Cressida Bell

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