From the November 2021 Issue The Artist Behind the Bowler Hat Magritte: A Life By Alex Danchev, with Sarah Whitfield
From the August 2021 Issue Virtuosos of the Asylum The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler’s First Mass-Murder Programme By Charlie English
From the February 2021 Issue Sex Didn’t Come into It Francis Bacon: Revelations By Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan LR
From the October 2019 Issue Burning Visions Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright By Paul Hendrickson LR
From the November 2017 Issue Upwardly Mobile Calder: The Conquest of Time – The Early Years, 1898–1940 By Jed Perl
From the April 2015 Issue ‘An echo-chamber of human misery’ Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel By Annie Cohen-Solal LR
From the December 2014 Issue Dog Days A Painter’s Progress: A Portrait of Lucian Freud By David Dawson LR
From the September 2014 Issue Making a Splash Hockney: The Biography, Volume II By Christopher Simon Sykes LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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