From the February 2018 Issue Portrait of the Biographer The Collector of Lives: Vasari and the Invention of Art By Ingrid Rowland & Noah Charney LR
From the September 2016 Issue The Illuminati Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts By Christopher de Hamel
From the August 2016 Issue Talents of Two Cities National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings – Volume III, Bologna and Ferrara By Giorgia Mancini & Nicholas Penny LR
From the December 2015 Issue By Any Other Name Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names By Ruth Bernard Yeazell LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
@RankinNick gives the question his best shot.
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Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
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Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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The ruling class has lost its sprezzatura.
On porky rolodexes and the persistence of elite reproduction, for the @Lit_Review: