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Vol. 31 No. 7 · 9 April 2009
Hilary Mantel
Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary by Miri Rubin. Allen Lane, 533 pp., £30, February 2009, 978 0 7139 9818 4
Letters
Stephen Sedley, T.J. Clark, Tom Behan, James Heartfield, Richard Bucci, Robert Heath, Kerry Brown, Glen Newey, Clancy Sigal, John Merriweather, Alfio Bernabei, David Mason
Michael Wood
Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC 1874-1908 by William Oddie. Oxford, 401 pp., £25, November 2008, 978 0 19 955165 1 The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton. Atlantic, 187 pp., £7.99, December 2008, 978 1 84354 905 5
John Hartley Williams
Poem: ‘My Real Name is Stanley Kubrick’
Peter Campbell
At Tate Modern: Constructivism
Graham Usher
Taliban v. Taliban
Marina Warner
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Edward Fitzgerald, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford, 167 pp., £9.99, January 2009, 978 0 19 954297 0
Glyn Maxwell
The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri. Picador, 407 pp., £16.99, March 2009, 978 0 330 45580 0
J. Hoberman
Chagall: Love and Exile by Jackie Wullschlager. Allen Lane, 582 pp., £30, October 2008, 978 0 7139 9652 4
John Lanchester
Short Cuts: Google Street View
Rosemary Hill
Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen & Charles Ritchie Letters and Diaries 1941-73 edited by Victoria Glendinning, by Judith Robertson. Simon and Schuster, 489 pp., £14.99, February 2009, 978 1 84737 213 0 People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen edited by Allan Hepburn. Edinburgh, 467 pp., £60, November 2008, 978 0 7486 3568 9
Gillian Darley
Le Corbusier: A Life by Nicholas Fox Weber. Knopf, 823 pp., $45, November 2008, 978 0 375 41043 7
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The International’, ‘Duplicity’
Lorna Scott Fox
Un lieu incertain by Fred Vargas. Viviane Hamy, 385 pp., €18, June 2008, 978 2 87858 285 7 Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand by Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds. Vintage, 388 pp., £7.99, January 2008, 978 0 09 948896 5 This Night’s Foul Work by Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds. Vintage, 409 pp., £7.99, February 2009, 978 0 09 950762 8 The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds. Harvill Secker, 247 pp., £12.99, February 2009, 978 1 84343 272 2
Tom Paulin
Poem: ‘From ‘Oedipus at Colonus’’
Christopher Clark
High Society in the Third Reich by Fabrice d’Almeida. Polity, 294 pp., £17.99, November 2008, 978 0 7456 4312 0
John Foot
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-19 by Mark Thompson. Faber, 455 pp., £9.99, April 2009, 978 0 571 22334 3
Mat Pires
Diary: La Princesse de Clèves at the Barricades
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