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Vol. 26 No. 22 · 18 November 2004
Corey Robin
The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War by Greg Grandin. Chicago, 311 pp., £40, October 2004, 0 226 30571 6
Letters
Rupert Read, Julian Rathbone, Samir El-youssef, Jack Adrian, W.J. Johnston, Halina Filipowicz, Keith Flett, Timothy Knapman, Lorna Scott Fox, Colin Armstrong, Don Locke, Ian Johnston, Sheridan Nye
John Kinsella
Poem: ‘Riding the Cobra at the York Show’
Jenny Diski
The Man who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram by Thomas Blass. Basic Books, 360 pp., £19.99, June 2004, 0 7382 0399 8
Patrick Collinson
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives. Blackwell, 458 pp., £25, July 2004, 0 631 23479 9
Charles Glass
‘You can have patience or you can have carnage’
Bernard Porter
Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul by Roger Owen. Oxford, 436 pp., £25, January 2004, 0 19 925338 2
Wyatt Mason
Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace. Abacus, 329 pp., £12, July 2004, 0 349 11810 8
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Dick Cheney’s Homepage
Caroline Maclean
Dining on Stones, or, The Middle Ground by Iain Sinclair. Hamish Hamilton, 449 pp., £16.99, April 2004, 0 241 14236 9
John Mullan
London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City by Sukhdev Sandhu. Harper Perennial, 498 pp., £9.99, November 2004, 0 00 653214 4
Peter Campbell
At the Royal Academy: the art of William Nicholson
Liam McIlvanney
The Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg by Karl Miller. Faber, 401 pp., £25, August 2003, 0 571 21816 4 Altrive Tales by James Hogg, edited by Gillian Hughes. Edinburgh, 293 pp., £40, July 2003, 0 7486 1893 7
William Wootten
Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity by Colin Nicholson. Manchester, 216 pp., £40, October 2002, 0 7190 6360 4 Beowulf translated by Edwin Morgan. Carcanet, 118 pp., £6.95, November 2002, 1 85754 588 5 Cathures by Edwin Morgan. Carcanet, 128 pp., £6.95, November 2002, 1 85754 617 2
Hugh Pennington
Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets by Joanna Blythman. Fourth Estate, 368 pp., £12.99, May 2004, 0 00 715803 3 Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate by Felicity Lawrence. Penguin, 272 pp., £7.99, May 2004, 0 14 101566 7 Food Policy Old and New edited by Simon Maxwell and Rachel Slater. Blackwell, 184 pp., £19.99, March 2004, 1 4051 2602 7
Nick Laird
Two Poems
Tom Nairn
Diary: Australian Blues
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