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Vol. 31 No. 3 · 12 February 2009
Mark Greif
Reborn: Early Diaries, 1947-64 by Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff. Hamish Hamilton, 318 pp., £16.99, January 2009, 978 0 241 14431 2
Letters
André Bénichou, Karl Sabbagh, John Gretton, George Adams, Bill Gilmour, Marielle Risse, John Scott, Caleb Crain
Stefan Collini
Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell. Oxford, 385 pp., £25, February 2009, 978 0 19 929584 5
Barbara Herrnstein Smith
The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation by Steven Shapin. Chicago, 468 pp., £15, October 2008, 978 0 226 75024 8
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
Jerry Fodor
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark. Oxford, 286 pp., £18.99, November 2008, 978 0 19 533321 3
Peter Campbell
At the Royal Academy: Palladio
Adam Phillips
In Praise of Difficult Children
Hermione Lee
Collected Stories and Other Writings by Katherine Anne Porter, edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue. Library of America, 1039 pp., $40, October 2008, 978 1 59853 029 2
Adam Shatz
Short Cuts: the Blessed Obama
Tessa Hadley
Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Edith Grossman. Bloomsbury, 332 pp., £17.99, October 2008, 978 0 7475 9528 1
Tony Harrison
Poem: ‘Diary’
Stephen Sedley
Early English Arbitration by Derek Roebuck. Holo, 312 pp., £40, April 2008, 978 0 9544056 1 8
Michael Kulikowski
Attila the Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire by Christopher Kelly. Bodley Head, 290 pp., £17.99, September 2008, 978 0 224 07676 0
David Morley
Poem: ‘Abandoned Christmas Tree Plantation’
J. Hoberman
D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’: A History of ‘The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time’ by Melvyn Stokes. Oxford, 414 pp., £13.99, January 2008, 978 0 19 533679 5
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empire by John Darwin. Penguin, 592 pp., £10.99, March 2008, 978 0 14 101022 9
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘A Wine Tale’
Clancy Martin
Diary: The Case of the Counterfeit Eggs
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