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Vol. 31 No. 12 · 25 June 2009
Letters
Peter Ward, Peter Ghosh, Susan Pedersen, Bill Peppe, Dorothy McMillan, John Cashmore, Lionel Green, Ealasaid Munro, Leo Robson, Susan McDermott, Ian Gowans, Stan Smith, Tolu Ogunlesi, Ben Pritchett
Iain Sinclair
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd. Vintage, 608 pp., £14.99, August 2008, 978 0 09 942255 6
Liam McIlvanney
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín. Viking, 252 pp., £17.99, April 2009, 978 0 670 91812 6
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James by Susan Gunter. Nebraska, 422 pp., £38, March 2009, 978 0 8032 1569 6
Peter Campbell
At Tate Modern: the Futurists
Stefan Collini
The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries edited by Zachary Leader. Oxford, 336 pp., £18.99, May 2009, 978 0 19 955825 4
Donald MacKenzie
Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe by Gillian Tett. Little, Brown, 338 pp., £18.99, April 2009, 978 1 4087 0164 5
Daniel Soar
Short Cuts: the Leaky State of Political Journalism
Jonathan Rée
Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography by Maria Rosa Antognazza. Cambridge, 623 pp., £25, November 2008, 978 0 521 80619 0
Bill Manhire
Poem: ‘The Oral Tradition’
Yonatan Mendel
Fantasising Israel
Uri Avnery
One Foot on the Moon
Jeremy Harding
At the Allenby Bridge
Bee Wilson
The Settler’s Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Portobello, 439 pp., £20, March 2009, 978 1 84627 083 3
Matthew Sweeney
Poem: ‘Snow, Ice’
Jenny Diski
Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert. Aurum, 346 pp., £20, February 2009, 978 1 84513 430 3
David Quint
The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ by Edith Hall. Tauris, 296 pp., £20, March 2009, 978 1 84511 575 3 Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ by Lillian Doherty. Oxford, 450 pp., £80, January 2009, 978 0 19 923332 8 The Unknown Odysseus: Alternate Worlds in Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ by Thomas Van Nortwick. Michigan, 144 pp., $50, December 2008, 978 0 472 11673 7
Chris Mullin
Diary: a report from Westminster
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