Vol. 33 No. 7 · 31 March 2011
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Vol. 33 No. 7 · 31 March 2011
Perry Anderson
Lula’s Brazil
Letters
Robert Tombs, Christopher McGovern, Peter Lloyd, Jackie Williams, John Breuilly, Margaret Graves, Edmund Gordon, Jason Harding, Mark Taylor, Christopher Eddy
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Tempest’
Michael Kulikowski
Zenobia of Palmyra: History, Myth and the Neo-Classical Imagination by Rex Winsbury. Duckworth, 198 pp., £16.99, September 2010, 978 0 7156 3853 8 Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff. Virgin, 368 pp., £20, November 2010, 978 0 7535 3955 2
Christopher Clark
Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg. Oxford, 577 pp., £25, February 2011, 978 0 19 959901 1
Andrew Cockburn
Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld. Sentinel, 815 pp., £25, February 2011, 978 1 59523 067 6
Peter McGill
Short Cuts: In Japan
Colin Kidd
The Philosophy, Politics and Religion of British Democracy: Maurice Cowling and Conservatism edited by Robert Crowcroft, S.J.D. Green and Richard Whiting. I.B. Tauris, 327 pp., £54.50, August 2010, 978 1 84511 976 8
Rory Stewart
Here we go again
James Shapiro
Plague Writing in Early Modern England by Ernest Gilman. Chicago, 295 pp., £24, June 2009, 978 0 226 29409 4
Peter Campbell
At the Royal Academy: Watteau
Joanna Biggs
We Had It So Good by Linda Grant. Virago, 344 pp., £14.99, January 2011, 978 1 84408 637 5
Pankaj Mishra
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Corsair, 336 pp., £14.99, March 2011, 978 1 78033 028 0
Theo Tait
‘The Killing’
Jeremy Harding
Diary: Hitchens
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