By Times Literary Supplement | Created at 2025-04-01 14:21:09 | Updated at 2025-04-04 05:13:54
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In February, Emma Garland investigated the myth of Joan Didion; James McConnachie chartered the revival of endangered writing systems; D. J. Taylor celebrated the staying power of The History Man; Roy Gibson revisited the life and work of an ancient biographer; Rebecca L. Spang considered the relationship between intestines and intellect. Here are some highlights from the month:
Playing it as it lays: Three new books complicate Joan Didion’s image as the ‘archpriestess of cool’
Scramble through Africa: A story of imperial ‘folly and hubris’
Grubby but gripping: Suetonius’s scandalous account of the first Caesars
What’s in a name: Are racial biases changing?
Limits of liberalism: The History Man at fifty
A write-off: The variety and fragility of the world’s minority scripts
Traditional fayre: How nutritional science replaced the health regimen
Hiroshima baby: A memoir that combines literary history, eco-elegy and polemic
We are the news: Poems, stories, essays and artwork from Gaza
The man behind the glasses: A thousand pages of comic pastiche about a Pinteresque cultural icon
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