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Vol. 31 No. 20 · 22 October 2009
David Runciman
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Allen Lane, 331 pp., £20, March 2009, 978 1 84614 039 6
Letters
Robin Dibblee, Isobel Armstrong, Colin Armstrong, Michael McGrath, Robert Hunter, Paul Trewhela, Roland Chambers, Christopher Miller, Mark Micale, Daniel Caola, Fawaz Ghitani, Malcolm Deas, Nicolas Buchele
David Bromwich
Obama’s Delusion
Michael Neill
Shakespeare, Love and Service by David Schalkwyk. Cambridge, 317 pp., £50, June 2008, 978 0 521 88639 0
David A. Bell
Beaumarchais: A Biography by Maurice Lever, translated by Susan Emanuel. Farrar, Straus, 411 pp., $26, May 2009, 978 0 374 11328 5
Christopher Clark
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One by Miranda Carter. Fig Tree, 584 pp., £25, September 2009, 978 0 670 91556 9
Ross McKibbin
At the Tory Conference
Brian Dillon
The Escape by Adam Thirlwell. Cape, 322 pp., £16.99, August 2009, 978 0 224 08911 1
Jenny Diski
Short Cuts: Periods
David Simpson
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh. Murray, 544 pp., £7.99, April 2009, 978 0 7195 6897 8
David Cole
The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial by Moshik Temkin. Yale, 316 pp., £25, July 2009, 978 0 300 12484 2
Rachel Bowlby
Checkout: A Life on the Tills by Anna Sam.175 pp., £6.99, July 2009, 978 1 906040 29 1
William Feaver
In the Studio: Sitting for Frank Auerbach
Greg Grandin
Leftovers: Tales of the Latin American Left edited by Jorge Castañeda and Marco Morales. Routledge, 267 pp., £17.99, February 2008, 978 0 415 95671 0
Nicolas Pelham
Diary: In Gaza
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