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Vol. 32 No. 3 · 11 February 2010
Toril Moi
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir and Constance Borde, translated by Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Cape, 822 pp., £30, November 2009, 978 0 224 07859 7
Letters
Terrence O’Keeffe, James Plenn, Gillian Tindall, Santiago Romero, Gabriel Sabbagh, Geoffrey Godbert, Oliver Rivers, Malcolm Hardman, Tania Sanchez, Richard Marriott, Charles Turner, Bernie Corbett, Former NUJ National Organiser, Paul Hatt, John Fletcher
Tim Parks
This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-50 by Cesare Pavese, translated by A.E. Murch. Transaction, 350 pp., £24.50, March 2009, 978 1 4128 1019 7
Stephen W. Smith
Nodding and Winking
Mark Ford
Poem: ‘Gregory of Nazianzus’
Michela Wrong
Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village by James Maskalyk. Canongate, 340 pp., £14.99, May 2009, 978 1 84767 274 2
Christopher Kelly
The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586-1906: A Colony so Fertile by Richard Hingley. Oxford, 389 pp., £83, June 2008, 978 0 19 923702 9
Glen Bowersock
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire by Edward Luttwak. Harvard, 498 pp., £25.95, November 2009, 978 0 674 03519 5
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘Then All the Empty Shall Be Full’
James Wood
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Natasha Randall. Penguin, 174 pp., £8.99, August 2009, 978 0 14 310563 3
Inigo Thomas
Short Cuts: The Hudson Plane Crash
Matthew Reynolds
Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow. Little, Brown, 224 pp., £11.99, January 2010, 978 1 4087 0215 4
Tom McCarthy
Running Away by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, translated by Matthew Smith. Dalkey, 156 pp., $12.95, November 2009, 978 1 56478 567 1 La Vérité sur Marie by Jean-Philippe Toussaint. Minuit, 204 pp., €14.50, September 2009, 978 2 7073 2088 9
Patrick McGuinness
Poem: ‘Charleville’
Christine Smallwood
A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff. Scribner, 399 pp., $26, April 2009, 978 1 4165 9077 4 The Group by Mary McCarthy. Virago, 448 pp., £7.99, December 2009, 978 1 84408 593 4
Barry Schwabsky
At the Grand Palais: Christian Boltanski
Michael Holroyd
A Tale of Three Novels
Lewis Siegelbaum
The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity and the Birth of Terrorism by Claudia Verhoeven. Cornell, 231 pp., £24.95, May 2009, 978 0 8014 4652 8
August Kleinzahler
Diary: Selling Up
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