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Vol. 33 No. 17 · 8 September 2011
John Lanchester
The Non-Scenic Route to the Place We’re Going Anyway
Letters
Eric Strong, Martin Davies, Stephen Longstaffe, Peter Cave, Lindsay Jacobs, Jonathan Kaplan, James Finlay, Kristin Surak, John Woodley, Chris Cossey, Maurizio Serra, Michael Howard
Ferdinand Mount
Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan by D.R. Thorpe. Pimlico, 887 pp., £16.99, September 2011, 978 1 84413 541 7 The Macmillan Diaries Vol. II: Prime Minister and After 1957-66 edited by Peter Catterall. Macmillan, 758 pp., £40, May 2011, 978 1 4050 4721 0
Peter Campbell
At the Courtauld: Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril
Richard J. Evans
The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw. Allen Lane, 564 pp., £30, August 2011, 978 0 7139 9716 3
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘Egypt Angel’
Michael Hofmann
Poems by Elizabeth Bishop. Chatto, 352 pp., £14.99, February 2011, 978 0 7011 8628 9
Hal Foster
The Last Column
Mary Anne Weaver
The Indecisive Terrorist
Conor Gearty
Short Cuts: Counterterrorism
John Barrell
The Letters of William Godwin Vol. I: 1778-97 by Pamela Clemit. Oxford, 306 pp., £100, February 2011, 978 0 19 956261 9
Amanda Vickery
Women in 18th-Century Europe by Margaret Hunt. Longman, 484 pp., £21.99, October 2009, 978 0 582 30865 7
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Project Nim’, ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’
J.G.A. Pocock
Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921 by Judith Binney. Bridget Williams, 670 pp., £50, May 2009, 978 1 877242 44 1 Stories without End: Essays, 1975-2010 by Judith Binney. Bridget Williams, 424 pp., £30, May 2010, 978 1 877242 47 2
Slavoj Žižek
The Riots
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Employment’
Chase Madar
The Anatomy of a Moment by Javier Cercas, translated by Anne McLean. Bloomsbury, 403 pp., £18.99, February 2011, 978 1 4088 0560 2
Lidija Haas
The House in France: A Memoir by Gully Wells. Bloomsbury, 307 pp., £16.99, June 2011, 978 1 4088 0809 2
Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘Wire’
Mary Ann Caws
Ondine et Paradis
James Lasdun
Diary: Police procedurals
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