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Vol. 28 No. 12 · 22 June 2006
John Lanchester
The Wal-Mart Effect: How an Out-of-Town Superstore Became a Superpower by Charles Fishman. Allen Lane, 294 pp., £12.99, May 2006, 0 7139 9825 3 Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price directed by Robert Greenwald.November 2005
Letters
Hilary Mantel, Thomas Laqueur, Curtis Brown, John Beattie, Tom Burns, Alexei Yurchak
Jenny Turner
Doctor Who BBC1Doctor Who: A Critical Reading of the Series by Kim Newman. BFI, 138 pp., £12, December 2005, 1 84457 090 8
Hal Foster
Catalogue: Foster and Partners edited by David Jenkins. Prestel, 316 pp., £22.99, July 2005, 3 7913 3298 8 Norman Foster: Works 2 edited by David Jenkins. Prestel, 548 pp., £60, January 2006, 3 7913 3017 9
Jessica Olin
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes. Granta, 372 pp., £14.99, June 2006, 1 86207 848 3
David Harsent
Two Poems
Hugh Pennington
Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady by Mark Jackson. Reaktion, 288 pp., £25, May 2006, 1 86189 271 3
W.G. Runciman
What happened to the Labour Party?
Peter Campbell
At Tate Modern: the fairground at Bankside
Paul Laity
Short Cuts: A west-country Man U supporter speaks
Patrick Collinson
The King’s Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church by G.W. Bernard. Yale, 736 pp., £29.95, November 2005, 0 300 10908 3 Writing under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation by Greg Walker. Oxford, 556 pp., £65, October 2005, 0 19 928333 8
Rosemary Hill
Rebel Queen: The Trial of Caroline by Jane Robins. Simon and Schuster, 370 pp., £20, June 2006, 0 7432 4862 7
John Connelly
Ivan’s War: The Red Army 1939-45 by Catherine Merridale. Faber, 396 pp., £20, October 2005, 0 571 21808 3 A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-45 edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova. Harvill, 378 pp., £20, September 2005, 9781843430551
Charles Simic
Poem: ‘The Elevator Is Out of Order’
Brian Jones
Nuclear Blindness
Arash Jalali
In Tehran
Thomas Jones
Diary: My Life as a Geek
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