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Vol. 29 No. 22 · 15 November 2007
Shadi Bartsch
Death in Ancient Rome by Catharine Edwards. Yale, 287 pp., £25, June 2007, 978 0 300 11208 5 The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint by Emily Wilson. Profile, 247 pp., £15.99, August 2007, 978 1 86197 762 5
Letters
Kenneth Anderson, Robert Chandler, Tony Gross, Alan Harris, Markie Robson-Scott, Jerry Coyne, Philip Kitcher, Daniel Dennett, Steven Rose, Colin Tudge, Kit Evans, Rory Finnin, Derek Robinson, Robin Chapman, Fiona Johnston, Thomas Venning
Slavoj Žižek
Resistance Is Surrender
Nicholas Guyatt
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges. Cape, 254 pp., £12.99, February 2007, 978 0 224 07820 7
Uri Avnery
After Rabin
Thomas Jones
The Ghost by Robert Harris. Hutchinson, 310 pp., £18.99, October 2007, 978 0 09 179626 6
David A. Bell
Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt. Norton, 272 pp., £15.99, April 2007, 978 0 393 06095 9
Megan Marshall
Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life: The Public Years by Charles Capper. Oxford, 649 pp., £23.99, June 2007, 978 0 19 506313 4
John Lanchester
Short Cuts: Decoding Hu Jintao
Tim Lewens
Max Perutz and the Secret of Life by Georgina Ferry. Chatto, 352 pp., £25, July 2007, 978 0 7011 7695 2
Hugh Pennington
Investigation into Outbreaks of ‘Clostridium difficile’ at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection, October 2007Investigation into Outbreaks of ‘Clostridium difficile’ at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection, June 2006
Deborah Friedell
Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life by Philip Davis. Oxford, 377 pp., £18.99, September 2007, 978 0 19 927009 5
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Eastern Promises’
Andrew O’Hagan
The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley. Fourth Estate, 834 pp., £25, September 2007, 978 1 84115 790 0
Julian Bell
At Tate Britain: John Everett Millais
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘‘Deer (not a play)’’
Patrick Cockburn
Will Turkey Invade?
Mike Davis
Diary: California Burns
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