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Vol. 33 No. 13 · 30 June 2011
Susan Eilenberg
Lives like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds by Lyndall Gordon. Virago, 491 pp., £9.99, April 2011, 978 1 84408 453 1 Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries by Helen Vendler. Harvard, 535 pp., £25.95, September 2010, 978 0 674 04867 6
Letters
David Elstein, David Seddon, R.W. Johnson, Kate Pahl, Michael Holroyd, Dai George, Anthony Buckley, Clifton Hawkins, Marielle Risse
C.K. Stead
Poem: ‘The Gift’
Jonathan Littell
Infisal! Infisal! Infisal!
Tristan McConnell
In Abyei
Steven Shapin
A Modern History of the Stomach: Gastric Illness, Medicine and British Society, 1800-1950 by Ian Miller. Pickering and Chatto, 195 pp., £60, May 2011, 978 1 84893 181 7
John Burnside
Two Poems
Ferdinand Mount
Dare to Stand Alone: The Story of Charles Bradlaugh, Atheist and Republican by Bryan Niblett. Kramedart, 391 pp., £19.99, January 2011, 978 0 9564743 0 8
David Hansen
At the Met: Richard Serra
Blair Worden
Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War by John Stubbs. Viking, 549 pp., £25, February 2011, 978 0 670 91753 2
Daniel Soar
Short Cuts: The Bourne Analogy
Julian Barnes
Nature Stories by Jules Renard, translated by Douglas Parmée. NYRB, 165 pp., £8.99, March 2011, 978 1 59017 364 0
Misha Glenny
Mafias on the Move: How Organised Crime Conquers New Territories by Federico Varese. Princeton, 278 pp., £24.95, March 2011, 978 0 691 12855 9
David Runciman
Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won by Tobias Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim. Crown, 278 pp., £19.50, January 2011, 978 0 307 59179 1
Tony Wood
The Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Jamey Gambrell. NYRB, 694 pp., £12.99, April 2011, 978 1 59017 386 2 Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin. Farrar, Straus, 191 pp., $23, March 2011, 978 0 374 13475 4
Benjamin Markovits
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky. Portobello, 176 pp., £7.99, July 2011, 978 1 84627 190 8
Blake Morrison
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W.H. Davies. Amberley, 192 pp., £14.99, September 2010, 978 1 84868 980 0
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘Sports Wrap’
Jonathon Tomlinson
Diary: In the Surgery
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