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Vol. 30 No. 21 · 6 November 2008
Colm Tóibín
In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story by Andrea Weiss. Chicago, 302 pp., £14.50, May 2008, 978 0 226 88672 5
Letters
Adrian Fosgood, Brian Cartwright, Alex Fox, Eric Cohen, David McDowall, J.A. Bosworth, Bill Cooke, Christopher Frayling
Jenny Diski
All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell. Hutchinson, 297 pp., £17.99, November 2008, 978 0 09 192578 9
Pankaj Mishra
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria. Allen Lane, 292 pp., £20, July 2008, 978 1 84614 153 9 The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order by Parag Khanna. Allen Lane, 466 pp., £25, April 2008, 978 0 7139 9937 2
Colin Kidd
The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History by J.G.A. Pocock. Cambridge, 344 pp., £18.99, September 2005, 9780521616454 Barbarism and Religion. Vol. III: The First Decline and Fall by J.G.A. Pocock. Cambridge, 527 pp., £19.99, October 2005, 0 521 67233 3 Barbarism and Religion. Vol. IV: Barbarians, Savages and Empires by J.G.A. Pocock. Cambridge, 372 pp., £17.99, February 2008, 978 0 521 72101 1
David A. Bell
Napoleon’s Cursed War: Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular War by Ronald Fraser. Verso, 587 pp., £29.99, April 2008, 978 1 84467 082 6
Susan Pedersen
‘We Danced All Night’: A Social History of Britain between the Wars by Martin Pugh. Bodley Head, 495 pp., £20, July 2008, 978 0 224 07698 2
Tony Harrison
Poem: ‘Wasted Ink’
Adam Shatz
Memories of Eden: A Journey through Jewish Baghdad by Violette Shamash, edited by Mira Rocca and Tona Rocca. Forum, 326 pp., £14.99, February 2008, 978 0 9557095 0 0 Baghdad, Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew by Sasson Somekh. Ibis, 186 pp., £9.50, November 2007, 978 965 90125 8 9
Daniel Soar
Short Cuts: Underground Bunkers
Matthew Bevis
New Writings of William Hazlitt: Volume I edited by Duncan Wu. Oxford, 507 pp., £120, September 2007, 978 0 19 923573 5 New Writings of William Hazlitt: Volume II edited by Duncan Wu. Oxford, 553 pp., £120, September 2007, 978 0 19 923574 2 William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu. Oxford, 557 pp., £25, October 2008, 978 0 19 954958 0
Michael Wood
At the Movies: Fernando Meirelles
Peter Howarth
The Collected Prose of Robert Frost edited by Mark Richardson. Harvard, 375 pp., £25.95, January 2008, 978 0 674 02463 2 The Notebooks of Robert Frost edited by Robert Faggen. Harvard, 809 pp., £25.95, January 2007, 978 0 674 02311 6
Stephanie Burt
Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart. Farrar, Straus, 61 pp., $25, April 2008, 978 0 374 28603 3
Elaine Showalter
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld. Doubleday, 558 pp., £11.99, October 2008, 978 0 385 61674 4
Peter Campbell
At the National Gallery: Renaissance Faces
Rachel Cohen
The Believers by Zoë Heller. Fig Tree, 320 pp., £16.99, September 2008, 978 0 670 91612 2
Ervand Abrahamian
Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader by Kasra Naji. Tauris, 298 pp., £12.99, December 2007, 978 1 84511 636 1 The Road to Democracy in Iran by Akbar Ganji. MIT, 113 pp., £9.95, May 2008, 978 0 262 07295 3
Roger Bland
Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage by James Cuno. Princeton, 228 pp., £14.95, June 2008, 978 0 691 13712 4
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Diary: Another Booker Flop
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