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Vol. 31 No. 23 · 3 December 2009
Letters
Charles Dodd, A.W. Brian Simpson, Jon Day, Robin Dibblee, Malcolm Deas, Jonathan Steinberg, Edwin Frank, Robin Kinross
Michael Wood
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Vol. II: 1923-25 edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton. Faber, 878 pp., £35, November 2009, 978 0 571 14081 7
Lawrence Rainey
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Vol. I: 1898-1922 edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton. Faber, 871 pp., £35, November 2009, 978 0 571 23509 4
Colin Kidd
Personal Responsibility: Why It Matters by Alexander Brown. Continuum, 214 pp., £12.99, September 2009, 978 1 84706 399 1
Richard J. Evans
The Annales School: An Intellectual History by André Burguière, translated by Jane Marie Todd. Cornell, 309 pp., £24.95, 0 8014 4665 1
Geoffrey Hosking
Russia against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 by Dominic Lieven. Allen Lane, 618 pp., £30, October 2009, 978 0 7139 9637 1
Benjamin Kunkel
Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Chatto, 545 pp., £18.99, November 2009, 978 0 7011 8342 4
Daljit Nagra
Poem: ‘This Be the Pukka Verse’
Stuart Kelly
All the Colours of the Town by Liam McIlvanney. Faber, 329 pp., £12.99, August 2009, 978 0 571 23983 2
Tony Wood
In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexico by Masha Salazkina. Chicago, 221 pp., £27.50, April 2009, 978 0 226 73414 9
Colin Dayan
Short Cuts: ‘Dangerous’ Dogs
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Stranglers and Bandits: A Historical Anthology of ‘Thuggee’ edited by Kim Wagner. Oxford, 318 pp., £22.99, January 2009, 978 0 19 569815 2
Peter Campbell
At the National Gallery: ‘The Sacred Made Real’
Rebecca Solnit
Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming and the Future of Water in the West by James Lawrence Powell. California, 283 pp., £19.95, January 2010, 978 0 520 25477 0
Ruth Padel
Poem: ‘Writing a Postcard after a War’
Ange Mlinko
The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest edited by Hadley Haden Guest. Wesleyan, 525 pp., £33.95, July 2008, 978 0 8195 6860 1 Women, the New York School and Other True Abstractions by Maggie Nelson. Iowa, 288 pp., £38.50, December 2007, 978 1 58729 615 4
Barbara Newman
Gilte Legende Vol. I edited by Richard Hamer and Vida Russell. Early English Text Society (Oxford), 496 pp., £65, November 2006, 0 19 920577 9 Gilte Legende Vol. II edited by Richard Hamer and Vida Russell. Early English Text Society (Oxford), 1036 pp., £65, August 2007, 978 0 19 923439 4
Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘The Daughters of Minyas’
Lee Palmer Wandel
The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village by Thomas Robisheaux. Norton, 427 pp., £18.99, March 2009, 978 0 393 06551 0
Andrew O’Hagan
Diary: Grief and the Cameras
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