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Vol. 32 No. 2 · 28 January 2010
Perry Anderson
When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World by Martin Jacques. Allen Lane, 550 pp., £30, June 2009, 978 0 7139 9254 0 Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State by Yasheng Huang. Cambridge, 348 pp., £15.99, November 2008, 978 0 521 89810 2 Against the Law: Labour Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt by Ching Kwan Lee. California, 325 pp., £15.95, June 2007, 978 0 520 25097 0
Letters
Theo Russell, Andrew Walker, Michael Tanner, John Brennan, Warner Berthoff, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Allen Esterson, Julian Jackson, Raymond Aronson, Pamela Birley, Andrew Wilton, Mark Roeyer
Jeremy Harding
Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 by Jeffrey Jackson. Palgrave, 262 pp., £20, January 2010, 978 0 230 61706 3 Paris Inondé 1910 Galerie des Bibliothèques, Paris, until 28 March 2010
Michael Hofmann
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell. Pushkin Press, 474 pp., £20, 1 906548 12 9
Robin Robertson
Four Poems
Jonathan Steele
Nazarbayev and the Making of Kazakhstan by Jonathan Aitken. Continuum, 269 pp., £20, July 2009, 978 1 4411 5381 4
Glen Newey
The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen. Allen Lane, 468 pp., £25, July 2009, 978 1 84614 147 8
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Avatar’
Frank Kermode
Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten edited by John Evans. Faber, 576 pp., £25, November 2009, 978 0 571 23883 5
David Trotter
The Person in the Phone Booth
Daniel Soar
Short Cuts: Terrorist Databases
Ellen Meiksins Wood
Why Not Socialism? by G.A. Cohen. Princeton, 83 pp., £10.95, September 2009, 978 0 691 14361 3
Peter Campbell
En route
James Lever
The Humbling by Philip Roth. Cape, 140 pp., £12.99, November 2009, 978 0 224 08793 3
Caroline Gonda
The Original ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley, with Percy Shelley, edited by Charles Robinson. Bodleian Library, 448 pp., £14.99, October 2009, 978 1 85124 396 9
Theo Padnos
Anwar Awlaki’s Blog
Anthony Thwaite
Two Poems
Anne Enright
Diary: Mrs Robinson Repents
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