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Vol. 31 No. 24 · 17 December 2009
David Runciman
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House by Taylor Branch. Simon and Schuster, 707 pp., £20, October 2009, 978 1 84737 140 9
Letters
John Baxendale, Lorna Salzman, Jan Montefiore, Paul Fryer, Patrick Renshaw, Tim Leggatt, Daisy Bickley, Tony Watson, Steve Lane, Nigel Shardlow
Andrew Bacevich
Social Work with Guns
Michael Wood
The Subtleties of Frank Kermode
Billy Collins
Poem: ‘The Poems of Others’
William Feaver
John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art by Frances Spalding. Oxford, 598 pp., £25, September 2009, 978 0 19 956761 4
Miranda Carter
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings. John Murray, 614 pp., £25, September 2009, 978 0 7195 6554 0
Charles Glass
England’s Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin Smith. Weidenfeld, 490 pp., £25, July 2009, 978 0 297 85218 6
Don Coles
Poem: ‘Places’
Peter Campbell
At the Ashmolean: The things themselves
David Kaiser
The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers by Frank Wilczek. Allen Lane, 270 pp., £18.99, June 2009, 978 1 84614 245 1
Robert Vitalis
Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maass. Allen Lane, 276 pp., £20, October 2009, 978 1 84614 246 8
Bill Pearlman
Short Cuts: Hanging with Pynchon
Andrew Nathan
Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang by Zhao Ziyang, translated by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang and Adi Ignatius. Simon and Schuster, 306 pp., £20, May 2009, 978 1 84737 697 8
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘A Serious Man’
Miles Taylor
The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt. Allen Lane, 442 pp., £25, May 2009, 978 0 7139 9852 8 The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels. Penguin, 307 pp., £10.99, May 2009, 978 0 14 119110 2
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times – An Autobiography by Harold Evans. Little, Brown, 515 pp., £25, September 2009, 978 1 4087 0203 1
Sam Willetts
Two Poems
Jérôme Tubiana
Why Chad isn’t Darfur and Darfur isn’t Rwanda
R.W. Johnson
Diary: The World Cup
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