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Vol. 34 No. 4 · 23 February 2012
Edward Luttwak
The Iliad by Homer translated by Stephen Mitchell. Weidenfeld, 463 pp., £25, October 2011, 978 0 297 85973 4
Letters
Benjamin Young, Russell Seitz, David Ganz, Clancy Sigal, Pat Stapleton, R.W. Johnson, Dorrit Harazim, Sarah Clark
Charles Nicholl
Death in Florence
Tony Wood
‘There is no alternative’
Kirill Medvedev
‘They treat us like shit’
Stephen Sedley
Judicial Politics
Adam Phillips
Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors and the History of a Disorder by Chloe Silverman. Princeton, 360 pp., £24.95, November 2011, 978 0 691 15046 8 What Is Madness? by Darian Leader. Hamish Hamilton, 359 pp., £20, October 2011, 978 0 241 14488 6
W.G. Runciman
A Co-operative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. Princeton, 262 pp., £24.95, July 2011, 978 0 691 15125 0
Andrew Haldane
The Doom Loop
Rosemary Hill
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport. Hutchinson, 336 pp., £20, November 2011, 978 0 09 193154 4 Albert by Jules Stewart. I.B. Tauris, 276 pp., £19.99, October 2011, 978 1 84885 977 7
Christian Lorentzen
Short Cuts: ‘Anyone but Romney’
Elizabeth Lowry
One Day I Will Write about This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina. Granta, 256 pp., £15.99, November 2011, 978 1 84708 021 9
Lidija Haas
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle. Basic, 360 pp., £18.99, February 2011, 978 0 465 01021 9
Ross McKibbin
An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna. Miegunyah, 793 pp., £57.95, May 2011, 978 0 522 85617 0
Rosemary Hill
At the Hayward: David Shrigley
J.H. Elliott
The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-63 by Paul Mapp. North Carolina, 455 pp., £44.50, February 2011, 978 0 8078 3395 7
Campbell Craig and Jan Ruzicka
Who’s in, who’s out?
Michael Dobson
Diary: The Russell-Cotes
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