LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features Joan Didion on the couch; Ocean Vuong’s Failure; The Best-Paid Woman in NYC and Olga Turner Tokarczuk and the mycological turn….

The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius by Patchen Barss

The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the Other 99 per Cent by Conor Niland

The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay by Christopher Clarey

The Roger Federer Effect: Rivals, Friends, Fans and How the Maestro Changed Their Lives by Simon Cambers and Simon Graf

Searching for Novak: The Man behind the Enigma by Mark Hodgkinson