Vol. 28 No. 2 · 26 January 2006

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Vol. 28 No. 2 · 26 January 2006

John Lanchester

The Google Story by David Vise
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle

Letters

Patrick Collinson, Roderick MacFarquhar, Ed Langley, Trevor Fisher, Seb Schmoller, Peter Hoskins, Lyn Julius, Martin Rollo, D.E. Steward, Siobhan Wall, Steve Cogan, Julian Rathbone

Hugo Williams

Poem: ‘No Chance of Sunday’

Steven Shapin

Between Genius and Genocide: The Tragedy of Fritz Haber, Father of Chemical Warfare by Daniel Charles

Yitzhak Laor

Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood by Idith Zertal

Tom Nairn

Karl Marx ou l’esprit du monde by Jacques Attali

Ed Harriman

US General Accountability Office 
US Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction 
International Advisory and Monitoring Board 

Seamus Perry

Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793-1810 edited by Lynda Pratt, Tim Fulford and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Politicians and the Press

Elizabeth Spelman

Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws by Catharine MacKinnon

Elizabeth Bishop

Poem: ‘Apartment in Leme’

Amanda Claybaugh

The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow

Lorna Scott Fox

The Company of Ghosts by Lydie Salvayre, translated by Christopher Woodall

Adam Phillips

Thwarted Closeness

Eleanor Birne

Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore
The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict by William Leith

Peter Campbell

At the Wallace Collection: Anthony Powell’s artists

George Ellis

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose

Andrew Saint

Diary: Goodbye to the Routemaster

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