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Vol. 29 No. 21 · 1 November 2007
Ross McKibbin
Who’s on the Ropes Now?
Letters
Simon Blackburn, Tim Lewens, Ian Cross, Gerald Mangan, Anthony Curtis, Jeremy Harding, Ken Sunshine, Grey Anderson, Stan Smith
Malcolm Bull
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray. Allen Lane, 243 pp., £18.99, July 2007, 978 0 7139 9915 0
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling by V.S. Naipaul. Picador, 193 pp., £16.99, September 2007, 978 0 330 48524 1
Mark Greif
Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad. Knopf, 657 pp., $35, April 2007, 978 0 375 40827 4
Colin Dayan
The White Tree
Elizabeth Lowry
The Voyage That Never Ends: Malcolm Lowry in His Own Words edited by Michael Hofmann. NYRB, 518 pp., £16.99, November 2007, 978 1 59017 235 3
Hal Foster
At the Hayward: ‘The Painting of Modern Life’
Ian Hacking
Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind by G.E.R. Lloyd. Oxford, 201 pp., £27.50, April 2007, 978 0 19 921461 7
Jenny Diski
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Lustre by Dana Thomas. Allen Lane, 375 pp., £20, September 2007, 978 0 7139 9823 8
Donald MacKenzie
Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London by Caitlin Zaloom. Chicago, 224 pp., £18.50, November 2006, 0 226 97813 3
Yitzhak Laor
1967: Israel, the War and the Year That Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev, translated by Jessica Cohen. Little, Brown, 673 pp., £25, May 2007, 978 0 316 72478 4
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: A Spasso con Gusto
Charles Simic
Two Poems
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Weidenfeld, 397 pp., £25, May 2007, 978 0 297 85068 7
Geoffrey Hawthorn
Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope by Tariq Ali. Verso, 244 pp., £14.99, November 2006, 9781844671021 Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today by D.L. Raby. Pluto, 280 pp., £18.99, July 2006, 0 7453 2436 3 Venezuela: Hugo Chavez’s Revolution, Latin America Report No. 19 by International Crisis Group.
Colin Burrow
The Solitudes by John Crowley. Overlook, 429 pp., £7.90, September 2007, 978 1 58567 986 7 Endless Things by John Crowley. Small Beer, 341 pp., $24, May 2007, 978 1 931520 22 5
Tom McCarthy
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. Canongate, 368 pp., £12.99, March 2007, 978 1 84195 902 3
Claire Crowther
Two Poems
Gillian Darley
The Buildings of England: Essex by James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner. Yale, 939 pp., £29.95, May 2007, 978 0 300 11614 4
Bee Wilson
Citizen Moore: An American Maverick by Roger Rapoport. Methuen, 361 pp., £8.99, July 2007, 978 0 413 77649 5 Manufacturing Dissent directed by Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk.October 2007Sicko directed by Michael Moore.October 2007
Alan Strathern
Diary: a report from Sri Lanka
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