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Vol. 28 No. 2 · 26 January 2006
John Lanchester
The Google Story by David Vise. Macmillan, 326 pp., £14.99, November 2005, 1 4050 5371 2 The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle. Nicholas Brealey, 311 pp., £16.99, September 2005, 1 85788 361 6
Letters
Patrick Collinson, Roderick MacFarquhar, Ed Langley, Trevor Fisher, Seb Schmoller, Peter Hoskins, Lyn Julius, Martin Rollo, D.E. Steward, Siobhan Wall, Steve Cogan, Julian Rathbone
Hugo Williams
Poem: ‘No Chance of Sunday’
Steven Shapin
Between Genius and Genocide: The Tragedy of Fritz Haber, Father of Chemical Warfare by Daniel Charles. Cape, 313 pp., £20, September 2005, 0 224 06444 4
Yitzhak Laor
Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood by Idith Zertal. Cambridge, 236 pp., £19.99, October 2005, 0 521 85096 7
Tom Nairn
Karl Marx ou l’esprit du monde by Jacques Attali. Fayard, 549 pp., €23, May 2005, 2 213 62491 7
Ed Harriman
US General Accountability Office US Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction International Advisory and Monitoring Board
Seamus Perry
Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793-1810 edited by Lynda Pratt, Tim Fulford and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts. Pickering & Chatto, 2624 pp., £450, May 2004, 1 85196 731 1
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Politicians and the Press
Elizabeth Spelman
Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws by Catharine MacKinnon. Harvard, 558 pp., £25.95, March 2005, 0 674 01540 1
Elizabeth Bishop
Poem: ‘Apartment in Leme’
Amanda Claybaugh
The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow. Little, Brown, 367 pp., £11.99, January 2006, 0 316 73198 6
Lorna Scott Fox
The Company of Ghosts by Lydie Salvayre, translated by Christopher Woodall. Dalkey Archive, 184 pp., £7.99, January 2006, 1 56478 350 2
Adam Phillips
Thwarted Closeness
Eleanor Birne
Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore. Profile, 196 pp., £12.99, June 2005, 1 86197 980 0 The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict by William Leith. Bloomsbury, 296 pp., £10.99, August 2005, 9780747572503
Peter Campbell
At the Wallace Collection: Anthony Powell’s artists
George Ellis
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose. Vintage, 1099 pp., £15, February 2006, 0 09 944068 7
Andrew Saint
Diary: Goodbye to the Routemaster
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