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Vol. 31 No. 11 · 11 June 2009
Andrew O’Hagan
A Car of One’s Own
Letters
Oliver Rivers, Graham Brown, Francis Wilkinson, John Lanchester, Karla Mallette, Izzud-Din Pal, Matthias Tomczak, Bob Hall, Matt Fretton, James Watt, Pat Harvey
David Morley
Poem: ‘From ‘Fresh Water’’
Peter Campbell
At the National Portrait Gallery: 273 Fabiolas
Jonathan Raban
Trouble at the Fees Office
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘How Many Times’
Patrick Cockburn
Return to Afghanistan
Charles Glass
1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem by Uri Avnery, translated by Christopher Costello. Oneworld, 398 pp., £12.99, October 2008, 978 1 85168 629 2 Israel’s Vicious Circle by Uri Avnery and Sara Powell. Pluto, 230 pp., £15, July 2008, 978 0 7453 2823 2
Michael Wood
An Oresteia translated by Anne Carson. Faber, 255 pp., $27, March 2009, 978 0 86547 902 9
Stephanie Burt
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll. Faber, 524 pp., £22.50, November 2008, 978 0 571 24252 8 The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney edited by Bernard O’Donoghue. Cambridge, 239 pp., £45, December 2008, 978 0 521 54755 0
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Politicians’ Spouses
Jenny Turner
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer. Canongate, 295 pp., £12.99, April 2009, 978 1 84767 270 4
Nikil Saval
Lowboy by John Wray. Canongate, 258 pp., £12.99, March 2009, 978 1 84767 151 6
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Synecdoche, New York’
Mark Kishlansky
The English Civil Wars 1640-60 by Blair Worden. Weidenfeld, 192 pp., £12.99, January 2009, 978 0 297 84888 2
Simon Adams
Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford. Yale, 412 pp., £25, May 2008, 978 0 300 11896 4
Hilary Mantel
Diary: On Being a Social Worker
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