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Vol. 30 No. 11 · 5 June 2008
Nicholas Spice
Greed by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Martin Chalmers. Serpent’s Tail, 340 pp., £7.99, July 2008, 978 1 84668 666 5
Letters
William Grant, Shego Jinpa, Donald Lopez, Michel Thibaud, Mat Pires, Brian Vickers, Martin Sanderson, Salah el Serafy, William Vesterman
Frank Kermode
Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera by Derek Hughes. Cambridge, 313 pp., £45, October 2007, 978 0 521 86733 7
Jenny Turner
The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore. Faber, 656 pp., £20, May 2008, 978 0 571 23934 4
Theo Tait
Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel by Gordon Burn. Faber, 214 pp., £15.99, April 2008, 978 0 571 19729 3
David Runciman
The Cattle-Prod Election
Thomas Cohen
Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics by Filippo de Vivo. Oxford, 312 pp., £60, October 2007, 978 0 19 922706 8
Stephen Sedley
No Ordinary Law
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: from Bethlehem
Michael Wood
At the Movies: The Devil and Robert Bresson
Maurice Keen
The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England’s Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer. Vintage, 480 pp., £8.99, July 2008, 978 1 84413 529 5
Brian Dillon
The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Zone, 386 pp., £21.95, June 2007, 978 1 890951 76 4
Hugh Pennington
Disasters and Disease
Jonathan Barnes
Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity by David Sedley. California, 269 pp., £17.95, January 2008, 978 0 520 25364 3
Patrick Collinson
Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History, 1652-1979 by William Lamont. Ashgate, 267 pp., £55, August 2006, 0 7546 5532 6
Peter Campbell
In Bexhill: Unpopular Culture
Louisa Waugh
Diary: Living in Gaza
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