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Vol. 30 No. 20 · 23 October 2008
John Lanchester
Cityphobia
Letters
Sarah Stern, Adam Shatz, Maurizio Morabito, Edward Burns, David Callahan, John Clayton, Wyatt Mason, Richard Davenport-Hines, Katharine Blair, Jeremy Silk
Ross McKibbin
What can Cameron do?
Peter Campbell
At Tate Modern: Rothko
Frank Kermode
Indignation by Philip Roth. Cape, 233 pp., £16.99, September 2008, 978 0 224 08513 7
David Bromwich
The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr. Chicago, 174 pp., £8.50, June 2008, 978 0 226 58398 3
Mark Greif
Mad Men: Season One Lionsgate Home Entertainment, £29.99, October 2008
Neal Ascherson
Europe between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000 by Barry Cunliffe. Yale, 518 pp., £30, July 2008, 978 0 300 11923 7
Tom Nairn
Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War by Patrick Wright. Oxford, 488 pp., £18.99, October 2007, 978 0 19 923150 8
Jeremy Harding
Short Cuts: Ezra Pound in Italy
Thomas Jones
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? by Francisco Goldman. Atlantic, 396 pp., £16.99, February 2008, 978 1 84354 737 2
Bernard Porter
Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope by Kirsten Ellis. HarperPress, 444 pp., £25, August 2008, 978 0 00 717030 2
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cézanne, Monet and Rodin by Ruth Butler. Yale, 354 pp., £18.99, July 2008, 978 0 300 12624 2
Thomas Crow
The Judicious Eye: Architecture against the Other Arts by Joseph Rykwert. Reaktion, 496 pp., £29.95, June 2008, 978 1 86189 358 1
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘Twelve-Minute Prometheus (after Aiskhylos)’
Glyn Maxwell
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon. Picador, 294 pp., £14.99, August 2008, 978 0 330 45841 2
Les Murray
Poem: ‘Brown Suits’
David Runciman
Diary: The Problem with English Football
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