Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 48 No. 11

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Luis W. Alvarez (1911–1988) began his storied career developing the atomic bomb and went on to conduct ground-breaking work on the building of the ancient Egyptian pyramids, the assassination of JFK and the extinction of the…

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The first full history of an extraordinary eighteenth-century British entertainment Glittering masquerades, held at the most fashionable London venues, dominated the calendars of the Georgian elite. A thrilling opportunity to gather,…

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Winner of the Sports Book of the Year Award 2026The football World Cup is the most watched sporting event on the planet.It has become a global obsession: 211 nations initially entered the 2022 edition. It has been running for almost a…

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In nineteenth-century France, the first fascist was born. Decades before Mussolini, the Marquis de Morès became the first populist and openly antisemitic leader in the Western world. A key figure behind the Dreyfus affair, he tore…

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Short-listed for the Booker Prize and named 'one of the greatest novels of all time' by The Observer, this riveting novel which was recently adapted on BBC Radio 4 shows Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best. Freda and Brenda spend…

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'This is one of Bainbridge's best books. The close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction' The TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE IN 1990It is 1950 and the Liverpool repertory theatre…

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In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky's Reminiscences of Tolstoy and it was recognized almost immediately as one of the few masterpieces of modern biography. 'It is one of the most remarkable biographical…

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 The never-before-published poems of one of the great American poets, edited and introduced by Shane McCrae.Only Sing is a continuation of John Berryman’s vast project The Dream Songs. These 152 never-before-published…

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A wondrous, elemental novel from ‘a writer of show-stopping genius’ (Guardian).Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind — a subject of folklore and wonder, who has blasted the sublime landscape of the Eden Valley since the…

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In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been…

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A New Yorker Best Book of 2025An eye-opening new history of one of Christianity’s most important figures – and one of Pope Leo XIV‘s primary inspirations.Augustine of Hippo is one of the world’s most influential…