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Vol. 35 No. 19 · 10 October 2013
Letters
T.J. Clark, Mark Adlard, Alisoun Shire, Paul Evans, Steve Thorn, Norman Frink, Christopher Clark, Anil Gomes, Tor Krever and Teresa Almeida Cravo, David Campbell, Greg Tuck, David Bradford
Peter Pomerantsev
Forms of Delirium
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan. Westbourne, 296 pp., £17.99, August 2013, 978 1 908906 27 4
Adam Phillips
The Hamlet Doctrine by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster. Verso, 269 pp., £14.99, September 2013, 978 1 78168 256 2
Hal Foster
Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art by Jacques Rancière, translated by Zakir Paul. Verso, 272 pp., £20, June 2013, 978 1 78168 089 6
David Runciman
Short Cuts: The Dirtiest Player Around
Jonathan Rée
Newton and the Origin of Civilisation by Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold. Princeton, 528 pp., £34.95, October 2012, 978 0 691 15478 7
Pankaj Mishra
After Suharto
Jeremy Harding
In Shanghai: Portrait of the Times
Richard Overy
Rückzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944 by Joachim Ludewig, edited by David Zabecki. Kentucky, 435 pp., £33.95, September 2012, 978 0 8131 4079 7
Edward Luttwak
Mafia Republic: Italy’s Criminal Curse: Cosa Nostra, Camorra and ’Ndrangheta from 1946 to the Present by John Dickie. Sceptre, 524 pp., £25, May 2013, 978 1 4447 2640 4
Karl Miller
The Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Macrone, edited by Daniel Grader. Edinburgh, 156 pp., £65, February 2013, 978 0 7486 6991 2
Ned Beauman
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest. Gollancz, 432 pp., £12.99, June 2013, 978 0 575 10536 2
Jenny Turner
Apocalypse Baby by Virginie Despentes, translated by Siân Reynolds. Serpent’s Tail, 338 pp., £8.99, June 2013, 978 1 84668 842 3
Jenny Diski
On Knickers
Patrick Cockburn
Diary: Four Wars
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