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Vol. 34 No. 23 · 6 December 2012
Adam Shatz
Why Israel Didn’t Win
Letters
Beatrix Campbell, Billy Smart, Joe Morison, Alastair Fowler, Rhodri Lewis, André Carrel, Andrew Thamo, Dan Stacey, Frank Jackson, Alan Purkiss, John Pemble, Matthias Tomczak, Bob Beck, Don Coles, Vernon Greenling, Luc Bourrousse, Neil Badmington, Jan Gross, Bernard Richards
Owen Bennett-Jones
Questions Concerning the Murder of Benazir Bhutto
Marina Warner
Everybody’s Joan
Rosemary Hill
Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother edited by William Shawcross. Macmillan, 666 pp., £25, October 2012, 978 0 230 75496 6
Amia Srinivasan
The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher. Harvard, 422 pp., £36.95, November 2011, 978 0 674 06144 6
John Ashbery
Poem: ‘Northeast Building’
Nick Richardson
Building Stories by Chris Ware. Cape, 246 pp., £30, October 2012, 978 0 224 07812 2
James C. Scott
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao’s Great Famine by Yang Jisheng, translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian. Allen Lane, 629 pp., £30, November 2012, 978 1 84614 518 6 Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikötter. Bloomsbury, 420 pp., £9.99, May 2011, 978 1 4088 1003 3 The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past by Gail Hershatter. California, 455 pp., £37.95, August 2011, 978 0 520 26770 1
Eyal Weizman
Short Cuts: The Book of Destruction
Katherine Rundell
Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest by Susan Brigden. Faber, 714 pp., £30, September 2012, 978 0 571 23584 1 Graven with Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt: Courtier, Poet, Assassin, Spy by Nicola Shulman. Short Books, 378 pp., £20, April 2011, 978 1 906021 11 5
Paul Grimstad
Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature by Daniel Levin Becker. Harvard, 338 pp., £19.95, May 2012, 978 0 674 06577 2
Edmund Gordon
Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway. Granta, 282 pp., £12.99, July 2012, 978 1 84708 741 6
Rosemary Hill
At the National Portrait Gallery: ‘The Lost Prince’
Gilberto Perez
Bourgeois Nightmares
Tony Wood
Russia Vanishes
Jeremy Harding
Diary: Ash Dieback
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