From the August 2016 Issue Sadland Melancholy: Melankólia By László F Földényi (Translated by Tim Wilkinson) LR
From the July 2016 Issue Arise, Sir Realist Roland Penrose: The Life of a Surrealist By James King LR
From the May 2016 Issue Urra=hubbulu You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia By Jack Lynch LR
From the March 2016 Issue In Praise of Asymmetry The Face of the Buddha By William Empson (Edited by Rupert Arrowsmith)
From the December 2015 Issue Bewitched The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment By Brian Copenhaver (ed) Translated by Brian Copenhaver LR
From the August 2015 Issue And All That Jazz Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918–1938 By Philipp Blom LR
From the February 2015 Issue When Blue Met Yellow Green: The History of a Color By Michel Pastoureau (Translated by Jody Gladding) LR
From the September 2014 Issue Not Just a Pretty Face Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work By Susan L Mizruchi LR
From the October 2014 Issue Grizzled Man Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed By Paul Cronin (in conversation with)
From the August 2011 Issue Paint and Spirits Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist By Phil Baker LR
From the July 2011 Issue Don’t Look Now Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s By Kim Newman LR
From the February 2011 Issue Trebles All Around A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess By Paul Phillips LR
From the December 2010 Issue In For A Penny Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895–1929 By Mary de Rachewiltz, A David Moody and Joanna Moody LR
From the May 2014 Issue Borges & I Georgie & Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife – The Untold Story By Norman Thomas di Giovanni
From the April 2012 Issue The Art of Dying Well Until Further Notice, I Am Alive By Tom Lubbock Great Works: 50 Paintings Explained By Tom Lubbock LR
From the July 2012 Issue The Horror, the Horror Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural By Victoria Nelson LR
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