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Vol. 34 No. 20 · 25 October 2012
Thomas Powers
The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson. Viking, 489 pp., £25, September 2012, 978 0 670 02510 7
Letters
James Loxley & Anna Groundwater; Julie Sanders, Ollie Brock, Raja Shehadeh, Chris Osman, Gwyn Carney, David McDowall, Neal Ascherson, Hamish MacGibbon, Tony Dennis, Donald Friedman, Paul Denman, Keith Ovenden
Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘Dionysus and the Maiden’
David Runciman
The Occupy Handbook edited by Janet Byrne. Back Bay, 535 pp., $15.99, April 2012, 978 0 316 22021 7
Astra Taylor
On Wall Street
John Pemble
Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834-1929 by Elizabeth Hurren. Palgrave, 380 pp., £65, December 2011, 978 0 230 21966 3 Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor by Ruth Richardson. Oxford, 370 pp., £16.99, February 2012, 978 0 19 964588 6
Karl Miller
Eric Hobsbawm
Julian Bell
Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science by Hans Belting, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. Harvard, 303 pp., £25, September 2011, 978 0 674 05004 4
Michael Kulikowski
The Age of Titans: The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies by William Murray. Oxford, 356 pp., £30, January 2012, 978 0 19 538864 0
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘A Baroque Scot’s Excess’
Neal Ascherson
Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood by Joachim Fest, translated by Martin Chalmers. Atlantic, 316 pp., £20, August 2012, 978 1 84354 931 4
Stephen Walsh
Music in 1853: The Biography of a Year by Hugh Macdonald. Boydell, 208 pp., £25, June 2012, 978 1 84383 718 3
David Simpson
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis. Vintage, 655 pp., £12.99, October 2012, 978 0 09 956383 9
Corey Robin
Age of Fracture by Daniel Rodgers. Harvard, 360 pp., £14.95, September 2012, 978 0 674 06436 2
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: The Vatileaks Saga
Matthew Bevis
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by John Sutherland. Broadview, 261 pp., £10.95, December 2011, 978 1 55111 409 5 Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion. Cape, 404 pp., £12.99, March 2012, 978 0 224 09119 0 Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine. Tonga, 172 pp., £10.99, January 2012, 978 1 60945 061 8
Adam Mars-Jones
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling. Little, Brown, 503 pp., £20, September 2012, 978 1 4087 0420 2
John Simon
Strindberg: A Life by Sue Prideaux. Yale, 371 pp., £25, February 2012, 978 0 300 13693 7
Jonathan Meades
At Hyde Park Corner: The Bomber Command Memorial
Emily Witt
Diary: Online Dating
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