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Vol. 26 No. 21 · 4 November 2004

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Vol. 26 No. 21 · 4 November 2004

Michael Wood

The Plot against America by Philip Roth

Letters

Stephen Sedley, Jeremy Harding, John M.W. Scott, Gillian Hughes, R.W. Johnson

Thomas Laqueur

Eichmann: His Life and Crimes by David Cesarani
Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence by Janina Struk

John Ashbery

Two Poems

James Meek

The Hive: The Story of the Honey-Bee and Us by Bee Wilson

Colin Kidd

The Right Nation: Why America Is Different by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet by James Mann
Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image by David Greenberg
America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism by Anatol Lieven

Elaine Showalter

Mexxed Missages

Slavoj Žižek

Over the Rainbow

Jacqueline Rose

My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing by Christoph Reuter, translated by Helena Ragg-Kirkby
Army of Roses: Inside the World of Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers by Barbara Victor

Robert Crawford

Three Poems

Alan Bennett

A Common Assault

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Ukip’s wrinkly glitz

Frank Kermode

T.S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews by Jewel Spears Brooker

Judith Butler

Jacques Derrida

Jenny Diski

Ghosting by Jennie Erdal

Stefan Collini

V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life by Jeremy Treglown

Peter Campbell

At Tate Modern: Bruce Nauman’s Raw Materials

Theo Tait

Magic Seeds by V.S. Naipaul

Durs Grünbein, translated by Michael Hofmann

Two Poems

James Wood

Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation by Bharat Tandon
Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style by D.A. Miller

Andrew O’Hagan

Poems to Last a Lifetime edited by Daisy Goodwin
All the Poems You Need to Say I Do edited by Peter Forbes

August Kleinzahler

Diary: remembering Thom Gunn

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