Vol. 33 No. 6 · 17 March 2011

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Stephen W. Smith

Rwanda in Six Scenes

Letters

Martin Jenkins, Tillman Schreibinger, Rex Winsbury, Jonathan Allison, Dominic Al-Badri, Lawrence Hansen, Basem Ra’ad, Martin Shaw, Frederick Sweet, Scott Atran, Julian Bell

Richard J. Evans

The Wonderfulness of Us

Iain Pears

After Browne

Colm Tóibín

The Importance of Aunts

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘Torn Score’

Peter Campbell

At the National Gallery: Jan Gossaert

Theo Tait

Hate: A Romance by Tristan Garcia, translated by Marion Duvert and Lorin Stein. Faber, 273 pp., £12.99, February 2011, 978 0 571 25183 4

David Haglund

Palo Alto: Stories by James Franco. Faber, 197 pp., £12.99, January 2011, 978 0 571 27316 4

Steve Fraser

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the 1970s by Judith Stein. Yale, 367 pp., £25, May 2010, 978 0 300 11818 6
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson Cowie. New Press, 464 pp., £19.99, September 2010, 978 1 56584 875 7

John Burnside

Poem: ‘Narrative’

Deborah Friedell

Short Cuts: ‘Donors Choose’

Mark Ford

Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman, edited by Ed Folsom. Iowa, 143 pp., $24.95, April 2010, 978 1 58729 870 7

James Buchan

The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel. Melville House, 439 pp., £12.99, March 2011, 978 1 935554 38 7
The Ayatollahs’ Democracy: An Iranian Challenge by Hooman Majd. Allen Lane, 282 pp., £20, January 2011, 978 1 84614 319 9

Hal Foster

The Beast and the Sovereign. Vol. I by Jacques Derrida, translated by Geoffrey Bennington. Chicago, 349 pp., £24, November 2009, 978 0 226 14428 3

Tom Shippey

Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400-1070 by Robin Fleming. Allen Lane, 458 pp., £25, August 2010, 978 0 7139 9064 5

Jonathan Steele

Half a Revolution

Glen Newey

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty by Wendy Brown. Zone, 167 pp., £19.95, October 2010, 978 1 935408 08 6

Jenny Diski

The Fugitive in Flight: Faith, Liberalism and Law in a Classic TV Show by Stanley Fish. Pennsylvania, 152 pp., £16.50, November 2010, 978 0 8122 4277 5

Daniel Finn

Diary: Ireland’s Election

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