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Vol. 29 No. 19 · 4 October 2007
Letters
Neil Forster, Rory MacQueen, Barbara Graziosi, Flora Jeunet, Gordon Peilow, Martin Sanderson
Michael Wood
Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee. Harvill, 231 pp., £16.99, September 2007, 978 1 84655 120 8 Inner Workings: Essays 2000-2005 by J.M. Coetzee. Harvill, 304 pp., £17.99, March 2007, 978 1 84655 045 4
Julian Barnes
Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon, translated by Luc Sante. NYRB, 171 pp., £7.99, August 2007, 978 1 59017 230 8
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Nearing Dawn’
Tariq Ali
Pakistan at Sixty
Ross McKibbin
Pure New Labour
Nicholas Guyatt
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis. Oxford, 440 pp., £17.99, May 2006, 0 19 514073 7 The Trader, the Owner, the Slave by James Walvin. Cape, 297 pp., £17.99, March 2007, 978 0 224 06144 5 The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 by Colin Kidd. Cambridge, 309 pp., £16.99, September 2006, 0 521 79324 6 The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese. Cambridge, 828 pp., £18.99, December 2005, 0 521 85065 7
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: Telecom Rehab
John Banville
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth. Cape, 292 pp., £16.99, October 2007, 978 0 224 08173 3
Amit Chaudhuri
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Hamish Hamilton, 184 pp., £14.99, March 2007, 978 0 241 14365 0
Susan Eilenberg
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. Murray, 223 pp., £12.99, June 2007, 978 0 7195 6456 7
James Shapiro
Shakespeare’s Wife by Germaine Greer. Bloomsbury, 406 pp., £20, September 2007, 978 0 7475 9019 4
Wayne Koestenbaum
Tennessee Williams: Notebooks edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton. Yale, 828 pp., £27.50, February 2007, 978 0 300 11682 3
Peter Campbell
At Victoria Miro: Sarah Sze’s Art of Arrangement
Adam Phillips
After Strachey
Anne Enright
Diary: Disliking the McCanns
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