From the April 2024 Issue We Need to Talk About Democracy Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power By Erica Benner LR
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From the December 2021 Issue Scholar in Arms The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino By Jane Stevenson LR
From the August 2021 Issue Prince of Publishers The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance By Ross King LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
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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: