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Vol. 32 No. 8 · 22 April 2010

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Vol. 32 No. 8 · 22 April 2010

Neal Ascherson

Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell

Letters

David Weiss, Louise Hirsch, Rob Mansell-Ward, David Elstein, Iain Bamforth, Benjamin Kunkel, Albion Urdank, Geraldine Lindley, Charles Lock, Chris Purnell, André Burguière, Craig Griffin

Julian Barnes

Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps by Eric Hazan, translated by David Fernbach

Benjamin Kunkel

Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson

Joseph Stiglitz

Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky

John Gray

The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron by Tim Bale
Back from the Brink: The Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection by Peter Snowdon

Peter Campbell

At the V&A: Quilts

Jonathan Raban

Red Tory: How Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix it by Phillip Blond

Ferdinand Mount

Where Power Lies: Prime Ministers v. the Media by Lance Price

Andrew O’Hagan

Short Cuts: The Happiness Project

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky by Bertrand Patenaude

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘The Ghost Writer’, ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’

Chase Madar

Victors’ Justice: From Nuremberg to Baghdad by Danilo Zolo, translated by M.W. Weir

Michael Kulikowski

The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithridates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor

Jenny Turner

The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis

Michael Wood

Point Omega by Don DeLillo

Rosemary Hill

Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War – Letters and Diaries 1939-45 edited by Peter Conradi
With Love and Rage: A Friendship with Iris Murdoch by David Morgan

Jenny Diski

Diary: Crabs

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