contents november 2022 issue 513 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 Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell
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diary 1 James Campbell art & architecture 6 Adrian Tinniswood
The Artist’s Studio: A Cultural History James Hall 8 Jerry White
London: The Great Transformation 1860–1920 Philip Davies 9 Gillian Tindall
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past James Stourton the state we’re in 11 Carl Miller
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World Max Fisher 12 David Anderson
Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters Adam Wagner 14 Simon Briscoe
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers Georgina Sturge ancient rome 15 Antony Spawforth
Crassus: The First Tycoon Peter Stothard 16 Bijan Omrani
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome Harry Sidebottom heaven & earth 17 Costica Bradatan
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion Peter Heather 18 Nigel Andrew
Country Church Monuments C B Newham 20 Daniel Rey
The Word: On the Translation of the Bible John Barton notebook 22 Florence Hazrat On the evolution of the exclamation mark literary lives 24 Tim Smith-Laing
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club Christopher de Hamel 25 Miranda Seymour
Between Friends: The Letters of Vera Brittain & Winifred Holtby Elaine and English Showalter (edd)
