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Exclusive from the JUNE issue:

HOMO LIBERALIS
John Gray reviews a new volume of Isaiah Berlin's letters, finding, amid the Oxford gossip and the philosophical aperçus, a desire for 'gaiety and cosiness' that hid a deeper unease.

ICE-COLD IN COYOACAN
Leon Trotsky spent his exile in Mexico raging against Stalin and playing host to like-minded thinkers. Richard Overy unpicks his final days...

A DISSENTING VOICE
Claire Harman ressurects Anna Letitia Barbauld: poet, educationalist, editor, critic, campaigner against censorship and all-round Regency heroine.

NOT YET I
Hugh Haughton on the massive, and massively erudite first volume of Samuel Beckett's letters.

CHARM AND DEATH
Philip Davis on the enigma of Isaac Rosenfeld.

Also in the June issue: Jonathan Mirsky on Chiang Kai-shek; Caroline Moorehead on the Junior Officers' Reading Club; Jamaica; Delhi; South Africa; God in America; Democracy across the globe; D-Day; ministerial rivalries through the ages; blue plaques; and fiction including Sarah Waters, Denis Johnson, Sarah Hall, Ursula K Le Guin, Alaa al-Aswany, Adam Thorpe, and much more...