July 2021

New Woman Behind the Camera brings together the whimsical and the confrontational to show how modernism shaped photography

Only in fiction did Faulkner dare to reveal what he knew about the code of caste

Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism by Mark Hussey reviewed

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon by Simon Fenwick reviewed

Dismissed as a dime-store Shostakovich, then praised as a major modern composer

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne reviewed

The enduring popularity of the Vacation series reflects not just the American appetite for travel, but also that old American virtue of gung-ho optimism

Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows by Ruth Scurr reviewed