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Vol. 31 No. 17 · 10 September 2009
John Burnside
Who Chose Them?
Letters
Keith Sellars, Edward Pearce, Anne Summers, Alex Johnston, Patrick Power, Paul Barker, Deborah Friedell, Anthony Paul, Gordon Petherbridge
Fredric Jameson
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. Bloomsbury, 434 pp., £18.99, September 2009, 978 0 7475 8516 9
C.K. Stead
Poem: ‘Nine Ways of Looking at a Fantail’
Thomas Jones
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon. Cape, 369 pp., £18.99, August 2009, 978 0 224 08948 7
Chris Andrews
Poem: ‘Nap’
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia by Vladislav Zubok. Harvard, 453 pp., £25.95, May 2009, 978 0 674 03344 3
Ilan Pappe
In Upper Nazareth
Rosemary Hill
James Lees-Milne: The Life by Michael Bloch. Murray, 400 pp., £25, September 2009, 978 0 7195 6034 7
Frank Kermode
Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard. Weidenfeld, 627 pp., £25, July 2009, 978 0 297 81592 1
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Inglourious Basterds’
Robert Hanks
Turbulence by Giles Foden. Faber, 353 pp., £16.99, June 2009, 978 0 571 20522 6
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: Valets
R.W. Johnson
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor. Viking, 591 pp., £25, May 2009, 978 0 670 88703 3
Brent Hayes Edwards
Memoires des esclavages: la fondation d’un centre national pour la memoire des esclavages et de leurs abolitions by Edouard Glissant. Gallimard, 192 pp., €14.90, May 2007, 978 2 07 078554 4 The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade by Christopher Miller. Duke, 571 pp., £20.99, March 2008, 978 0 8223 4151 2
Bee Wilson
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn. Simon and Schuster, 467 pp., £14.99, May 2009, 978 1 84737 134 8
Peter Campbell
In a Bookshop: Penguin by Illustrators
Caroline Maclean
The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period by Laura Marcus. Oxford, 562 pp., £39, December 2007, 978 0 19 923027 3
Steven Shapin
Notes on a Cellar-Book by George Saintsbury, edited by Thomas Pinney. California, 348 pp., £20.95, October 2008, 978 0 520 25352 0
Judith Baker and Ian Hacking
Diary: Walking in the Andes
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