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Vol. 33 No. 9 · 28 April 2011
James Meek
In the Sorting Office
Letters
Thomas Docherty, Richard Bowring, Alexander Murray, Stanley Wells, Simon Darragh, C.K. Stead, Ralph W. Reed, Garth Clarke, Andrew Burt, Marian Fowles
Will Self
Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next by John Kasarda and Greg Lindsay. Allen Lane, 480 pp., £14.99, March 2011, 978 1 84614 100 3
Stephen Sedley
The Oxford History of the Laws of England 1820-1914: Vol. XI, English Legal System; Vol. XII, Private Law; Vol. XIII, Fields of Development edited by William Cornish et al. Oxford, 3571 pp., £495, February 2010, 978 0 19 925883 3
Richard Fortey
The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth by Richard Conniff. Norton, 464 pp., £19.99, November 2010, 978 0 393 06854 2
Peter Campbell
In the Cave: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Hilary Rose and Steven Rose
Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences by Rebecca Jordan-Young. Harvard, 394 pp., £25.95, September 2010, 978 0 674 05730 2
Issandr El Amrani
Is there a Libya?
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: On the Bus
Thomas Powers
Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol. I edited by Harriet Elinor Smith et al. California, 736 pp., £24.95, November 2010, 978 0 520 26719 0
Jerry Fodor
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind by Robert Kurzban. Princeton, 274 pp., £19.95, January 2011, 978 0 691 14674 4
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Battleship Potemkin’
Scott Hames
The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner. Vintage, 394 pp., £7.99, May 2011, 978 0 09 946182 1
Ruth Padel
Two Poems
Naomi Fry
Great House by Nicole Krauss. Viking, 289 pp., £16.99, February 2011, 978 0 670 91932 1
R.W. Johnson
Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49 by Jim Baggott. Icon, 576 pp., £10.99, November 2009, 978 1 84831 082 7 The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers and the Prospects for a World without Nuclear Weapons by Richard Rhodes. Knopf, 366 pp., $27.95, August 2010, 978 0 307 26754 2 Eliminating Nuclear Threats: A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers by Gareth Evans and Yoriko Kawaguchi. ICNND, 294 pp., November 2009, 978 1 921612 14 5
Jordan Sand
Diary: In Tokyo
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