XXth Monthname 2025
Books
Titles not to miss in July
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From one woman’s journey into the night to a food writer’s tour around Paris, July’s writers embark on various journeys of discovery. Caroline Sanderson reports
Art
Alayo Akinkugbe ( 1) Reframing Blackness: What’s Black About ‘History of Art’? Merky Books, 10th, HB, £20, 9781529186406
24-year-old writer and curator Akinkugbe founded Instagram @ablackhistoryofart while she was studying art history at Cambridge, and encountering almost no Black artists in the process. In this short and wonderfully illuminating book she references 80 artworks as she explores the presentation of Black figures in mainstream Western art, as well as Blackness in the art curriculum. In the process she sheds valuable and long overdue light on an integral part of our collective art history.
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Arifa Akbar ( 3) Wolf Moon: A Woman’s Journey into the Night Sceptre, 3rd, HB, £16.99, 9781399712859 As chief theatre critic for the Guardian, Akbar is used to keeping late hours. Prompted by her encounters with other night workers, and memories of her own father’s experience of working night shifts as a security guard, she embarks on a marvellously multi-faceted journey into night, encountering those who inhabit it. From the “dark sky” island of Sark to the pulsating rhythms of the coolest of Berlin’s clubs, it’s a beguiling blend of memoir, travelogue and staying awake so others don’t have to.
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Mandy Haggith ( 2) The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them Wildfire, 3rd, HB, £25, 9781035412327 Elm trees once covered swathes of Europe and North America; now all but a handful have been wiped out by Dutch elm disease. In a beguiling love letter to a tree that has long been symbolic in many cultures, writer and forest activist Haggith tells the story of our attempt to save the elm. Happily, the elm is proving more hardy than imagined and is therefore increasingly, she says, “a symbol of the resilience we so urgently need”.
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Books New Titles: Non-Fiction
JOCELYN NGUYEN
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