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Vol. 29 No. 16 · 16 August 2007
Linda Colley
A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein. Hutchinson, 628 pp., £25, June 2007, 978 0 09 192078 4 Hillary Clinton: Her Way: The Biography by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta. Murray, 438 pp., £20, June 2007, 978 0 7195 6892 3
Letters
Rod Edmond, Gabriel Egan, Chimen Abramsky, Norman Zide, Shashi Tharoor, Christine Lindey, Peter Burgess, Arthur Searle, David Whalin, Archie Burnett
Henry Siegman
The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam
John Lanchester
The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries edited by Alastair Campbell and Richard Stott. Hutchinson, 794 pp., £25, July 2007, 978 0 09 179629 7
Rosemary Hill
Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service by Alison Light. Fig Tree, 376 pp., £20, August 2007, 978 0 670 86717 2
Terry Castle
Travels with My Mom
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘Triple Sonnet of the Plush Pony’
Rosemarie Bodenheimer
The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell edited by Joanne Shattock et al. Pickering & Chatto, 4716 pp., £900, May 2006, 9781851967773
Patrick Wright
Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao by Margaret MacMillan. Murray, 384 pp., £25, October 2006, 0 7195 6522 7
Deborah Friedell
Short Cuts: First Impressions
R.W. Johnson
The State v. Nelson Mandela: The Trial That Changed South Africa by Joel Joffe. Oneworld, 288 pp., £16.99, July 2007, 978 1 85168 500 4
Joanna Biggs
Joshua Spassky by Gwendoline Riley. Cape, 164 pp., £11.99, May 2007, 978 0 224 07699 9
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Simpsons Movie’
Adam Thirlwell
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon. Fourth Estate, 414 pp., £17.99, June 2007, 978 0 00 715039 7
Peter Campbell
At the Wellcome: The Heart
Karl Schlögel
Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin by Jochen Hellbeck. Harvard, 436 pp., £19.95, May 2007, 978 0 674 02174 7
Rashid Khalidi
Shared Irresponsibility
Jenny Diski
Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled by Tim Heald. Weidenfeld, 346 pp., £20, July 2007, 978 0 297 84820 2
Inigo Thomas
Diary: New York Megacity
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