From the February 2021 Issue A Great Director or Just a God? Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker By David Mikics LR
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From the July 2019 Issue He Went from Peak to Peak Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan By Ursula Buchan LR
From the December 2018 Issue Brod’s Bequest Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy By Benjamin Balint
From the November 2018 Issue Something to Sink Your Teeth Into The Vampire: A New History By Nick Groom LR
From the July 2018 Issue The Critic’s Critic The Ink Trade: Selected Journalism 1961–1993 By Anthony Burgess (Edited by Will Carr) LR
From the June 2018 Issue The Jeddah Gang Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt By Philip Walker LR
From the March 2018 Issue Plenty of Sex & Nowhere to Sit Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940–50 By Agnès Poirier
From the February 2018 Issue In the Court of the Seelie King Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies, 500 AD to the Present By Simon Young & Ceri Houlbrook (edd) LR
From the October 2017 Issue Rise to the Occasion Levitation: The Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension By Peter Adey LR
From the April 2017 Issue Shades of Sin Red: The History of a Color By Michel Pastoureau (Translated by Jody Gladding) LR
From the February 2017 Issue Top Kat Krazy: George Herriman – A Life in Black and White By Michael Tisserand LR
From the December 2016 Issue Enfant Terrible Jean Cocteau: A Life By Claude Arnaud (Translated by Lauren Elkin & Charlotte Mandell)
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From the September 2016 Issue Use Your Illusions Conjuring Asia: Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World By Chris Goto-Jones LR
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