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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 The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, The Maltings, West Street, All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW Print by: CPUK Print Publishing Ltd, www.cp-uk.co.uk Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London Designed by Cog Design Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. The latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife. Literary Review | november 2022 2 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)
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contents 26 Stephen Romer Living and Dying with Marcel Proust Christopher Prendergast history 27 Dorian Lynskey Faster than a Cannonball: 1995 and All That Dylan Jones Accelerate! A History of the 1990s James Brooke-Smith 29 Victor Sebestyen The World: A Family History Simon Sebag Montefiore 30 Catherine Fletcher Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City Jane Stevenson 31 Robert Colls The Reign: Life in Elizabeth’s Britain – Part I: The Way It Was, 1952–79 Matthew Engel 32 David Crane The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way Anthony Seldon biography 33 David Jays Mr B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century Jennifer Homans 34 Alan Ryan Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 Bruce Caldwell & Hansjoerg Klausinger 36 Allan Massie ‘Pretty Young Rebel’: The Life of Flora Macdonald Flora Fraser body & mind 38 Patricia Fara The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Siddhartha Mukherjee 39 Shahidha Bari Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos Matt Lodder 40 Jane O’Grady Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way Kieran Setiya general 42 Thomas Blaikie Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer Tina Gaudoin Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown Valentine Low 44 Peter Davidson Starlight Wood: Walking Back to the Romantic Countryside Fiona Sampson 45 Edward Behrens The British Cookbook Ben Mervis 46 Nora Duckett Behind Closed Doors: Why We Break Up Families – and How to Mend Them Polly Curtis 48 Paul Driver The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age Stephen Walsh 49 Mark Almond My Family and Other Enemies: Life and Travels in Croatia’s Hinterland Mary Novakovich fiction 50 Ian Critchley The Singularities John Banville 51 Anthony Cummins Lucy by the Sea Elizabeth Strout 52 Emma Garman Strega Johanne Lykke Holm 52 Kathy O’Shaughnessy Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 54 J S Barnes Bournville Jonathan Coe 55 George Cochrane Children of Paradise Camilla Grudova fiction in brief 56 Dinosaurs Lydia Millet Sundial Catriona Ward An Impossible Return Caroline Laurent silenced voices 57 Lucy Popescu Tsitsi Dangarembga & Julie Barnes crime 58 Natasha Cooper bookends 64 Peyton Skipwith On the Art of Wood Engraving 29 LR Bookshop 37 Letters 59 Crossword Fergus Butler-Gallie is still away; the competition will return. november 2022 | Literary Review 3

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26 Stephen Romer

Living and Dying with Marcel Proust Christopher Prendergast history 27 Dorian Lynskey

Faster than a Cannonball: 1995 and All That Dylan Jones Accelerate! A History of the 1990s James Brooke-Smith 29 Victor Sebestyen

The World: A Family History Simon Sebag Montefiore 30 Catherine Fletcher

Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City Jane Stevenson 31 Robert Colls

The Reign: Life in Elizabeth’s Britain – Part I: The Way It Was, 1952–79 Matthew Engel 32 David Crane

The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way Anthony Seldon biography 33 David Jays

Mr B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century Jennifer Homans 34 Alan Ryan

Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 Bruce Caldwell & Hansjoerg Klausinger 36 Allan Massie

‘Pretty Young Rebel’: The Life of Flora Macdonald Flora Fraser body & mind 38 Patricia Fara

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Siddhartha Mukherjee 39 Shahidha Bari

Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos Matt Lodder 40 Jane O’Grady

Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way Kieran Setiya general 42 Thomas Blaikie

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer Tina Gaudoin Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown Valentine Low 44 Peter Davidson

Starlight Wood: Walking Back to the Romantic Countryside Fiona Sampson

45 Edward Behrens

The British Cookbook Ben Mervis 46 Nora Duckett

Behind Closed Doors: Why We Break Up Families – and How to Mend Them Polly Curtis 48 Paul Driver

The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age Stephen Walsh 49 Mark Almond

My Family and Other Enemies: Life and Travels in Croatia’s Hinterland Mary Novakovich fiction 50 Ian Critchley

The Singularities John Banville 51 Anthony Cummins

Lucy by the Sea Elizabeth Strout 52 Emma Garman

Strega Johanne Lykke Holm 52 Kathy O’Shaughnessy

Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 54 J S Barnes

Bournville Jonathan Coe 55 George Cochrane

Children of Paradise Camilla Grudova fiction in brief 56 Dinosaurs Lydia Millet Sundial Catriona Ward An Impossible Return Caroline Laurent silenced voices 57 Lucy Popescu Tsitsi Dangarembga & Julie Barnes crime 58 Natasha Cooper bookends 64 Peyton Skipwith On the Art of Wood Engraving

29 LR Bookshop 37 Letters 59 Crossword

Fergus Butler-Gallie is still away; the competition will return.

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