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Vol. 28 No. 23 · 30 November 2006
Pankaj Mishra
Getting Rich
Letters
Ian Birchall, Guido Franzinetti, Anthony Fry, Julian Preece, William Whyte, Jim Stewart, John Hodgson, Jenny Chamier Grove, Joy Matkowski, Martin Ward, Gordon Petherbridge, Alex Drace-Francis, Bill Sanderson
John Welch
Poem: ‘Beached’
Terry Eagleton
Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality by Ewen. Seven Stories, 555 pp., $34.95, September 2006, 1 58322 735 0
Inigo Thomas
State of Denial: Bush at War by Bob Woodward. Simon and Schuster, 560 pp., £18.99, October 2006, 0 7432 9566 8
John Barrell
Thomas Paine’s ‘Rights of Man’: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens. Atlantic, 128 pp., £9.99, July 2006, 1 84354 513 6
Alex de Waal
‘I will not sign’
James Buchan
Thatcher and Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts by Simon Jenkins. Allen Lane, 375 pp., £20, October 2006, 0 7139 9595 5
Jeremy Harding
Short Cuts: Shot At Dawn
Christopher Tayler
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford. Bloomsbury, 485 pp., £17.99, October 2006, 0 7475 8188 6
Christopher Turner
Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones by Brenda Maddox. Murray, 354 pp., £25, September 2006, 0 7195 6792 0
Peter Campbell
In Russell Square: exploring Bloomsbury
Steven Shapin
Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton. Oxford, 304 pp., £16.99, June 2006, 0 19 280355 7
John Whitfield
Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers. Harvard, 602 pp., £21.95, January 2006, 0 674 01713 7
Adam Thorpe
Two Poems
John Demos
Sensory Worlds in Early America by Peter Charles Hoffer. Johns Hopkins, 334 pp., $25, December 2005, 9780801883927
Jenny Diski
Diary: The Friendly Spider Programme
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