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Vol. 31 No. 1 · 1 January 2009
Alan Bennett
Diary: Bennett’s Dissection
Letters
Josh Foster, Timothy Scarnecchia, Jocelyn Alexander and 33 others, Gavin Kitching, Mahmood Mamdani, Gaiutra Bahadur, Hugh Pennington, Damian Smyth, Edward Pearce, Paul Taylor, Noah McCormack, Brian Lee
James Wolcott
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike. Hamish Hamilton, 308 pp., £18.99, October 2008, 978 0 241 14427 5
Michael Wood
Justine by Lawrence Durrell. Folio Society, 203 pp., £19.95, January 2009Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell. Folio Society, 198 pp., £19.95, January 2009Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell. Folio Society, 263 pp., £19.95, January 2009Clea by Lawrence Durrell. Folio Society, 241 pp., £19.95, January 2009
Hilary Mantel
Someone to Disturb
John Lanchester
Is it Art?
Bee Wilson
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, translated by Geoffrey Brock. NYRB, 189 pp., £8.99, November 2008, 978 1 59017 289 6
Adam Shatz
Short Cuts: The Greek Uprising
Andrew O’Hagan
Arthur Miller, 1915-62 by Christopher Bigsby. Weidenfeld, 739 pp., £30, November 2008, 978 0 297 85441 8
Sara Roy
If Gaza falls …
David Edgar
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd. Chatto, 620 pp., £25, September 2008, 978 0 7011 7987 8
Hugo Williams
Poem: ‘A Pillow Book’
Mark Ford
Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems edited by Edna Longley. Bloodaxe, 335 pp., £12, June 2008, 978 1 85224 746 1
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Milk’
Malcolm Bull
Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy by Roberto Esposito, translated by Timothy Campbell. Minnesota, 230 pp., £14, April 2008, 978 0 8166 4990 7
Peter Campbell
At Dulwich Picture Gallery: Saul Steinberg’s Playful Modernism
Siddhartha Deb
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan. Yale, 251 pp., £9.99, October 2008, 978 0 300 14333 1 The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar. Columbia, 288 pp., £29.50, October 2007, 978 0 231 13846 8
Lavinia Greenlaw
Three Poems
McGuire Gibson
Diary: the Theft of Iraq’s Antiquities
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