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Vol. 31 No. 10 · 28 May 2009
John Lanchester
It’s Finished
Letters
Anthony Byrne, Ron Haggart, David Cobham, Joe Palmer, Thom Townsend, Tor Krever, Fidel Geraldino, Kenneth Griffiths, John Moore
David Runciman
The Wikipedia Revolution by Andrew Lih. Aurum, 252 pp., £14.99, March 2009, 978 1 84513 473 0
Charles Nicholl
The Lost City of Z by David Grann. Simon and Schuster, 339 pp., £16.99, February 2009, 978 1 84737 436 3
Daniel Soar
Short Cuts: On @
August Kleinzahler
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. Penguin, 214 pp., £20, November 2008, 978 1 84614 164 5
Peter Campbell
At Dulwich Picture Gallery: Sickert’s Venetian Pictures
Thomas Jones
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry. Heinemann, 278 pp., £14.99, March 2009, 978 0 434 01945 8
Susan Pedersen
Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain 1918-60 by Kate Fisher. Oxford, 294 pp., £24, May 2008, 978 0 19 954460 8 For Their Own Good: The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 by Lucinda McCray Beier. Ohio State, 409 pp., £64.95, October 2008, 978 0 8142 1094 9
Allan Gibbard
Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame by T.M. Scanlon. Harvard, 247 pp., £19.95, September 2008, 978 0 674 03178 4
Don Paterson
Poem: ‘The Bathysphere’
Eric Hershberg
Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos by Louis Pérez. North Carolina, 333 pp., £32.95, August 2008, 978 0 8078 3216 5 Cuba in Revolution: A History since the 1950s by Antoni Kapcia. Reaktion, 208 pp., £15.95, September 2008, 978 1 86189 402 1
Anne Enright
Diary: A Writer’s Life
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