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Vol. 30 No. 2 · 24 January 2008
Hilary Mantel
Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained edited by Una McGovern. Chambers, 760 pp., £35, October 2007, 978 0 550 10215 7
Letters
Martha Roth, Alan Myers, Charles Turner, Anthony Rudolf, Glenn Lang, Slavoj Žižek, Ross McKibbin, Stephen Sasse, Eamonn Grogan, Rob Best, John Gretton, Ben Bollig, Robert Berold, Valentin Lyubarsky, Donal Ó Drisceoil, Cliff Hawkins
Jenny Diski
On Ugliness edited by Umberto Eco. Harvill Secker, 455 pp., £30, October 2007, 978 1 84655 122 2
Andrew O’Hagan
Crossfire by Andy McNab. Bantam, 414 pp., £17.99, October 2007, 978 1 84413 535 6 Strike Back by Chris Ryan. Century, 314 pp., £17.99, October 2007, 978 1 84413 535 6
Eliot Weinberger
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter. Norton, 518 pp., £22, October 2007, 978 0 393 06226 7
David Hollinger
The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West by Mark Lilla. Knopf, 334 pp., $26, September 2007, 978 1 4000 4367 5
Hugo Williams
Three Poems
Peter Campbell
At the National Gallery: Good Enough to Eat
Terry Eagleton
Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins by Peter Conrad. Thames and Hudson, 529 pp., £24.95, September 2007, 978 0 500 51356 9
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Blogged Down
Tessa Hadley
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan. Faber, 163 pp., £10.99, May 2007, 978 0 571 23306 9
Michael Hofmann
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards. NYRB, 400 pp., £10.99, July 2007, 978 1 59017 233 9
Steven Mithen
On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord Smail. California, 271 pp., £12.95, December 2007, 978 0 520 25289 9
Robert Crawford
Poem: ‘Really’
Daniel Branch
At the Polling Station in Kibera
O.A. Westad
The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad. New Press, 364 pp., £16.99, January 2007, 978 1 56584 785 9
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Lust, Caution’
James Sanders
Evil Hour in Colombia by Forrest Hylton. Verso, 174 pp., £12.99, September 2006, 1 84467 551 3
Norman Dombey
Iran’s Bomb: A Revision
Eric Hobsbawm
Diary: Memories of Weimar
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