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Vol. 32 No. 3 · 11 February 2010

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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

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

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

Christopher Kelly

The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586-1906: A Colony so Fertile by Richard Hingley

Glen Bowersock

The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire by Edward Luttwak

Frederick Seidel

Poem: ‘Then All the Empty Shall Be Full’

James Wood

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Natasha Randall

Inigo Thomas

Short Cuts: The Hudson Plane Crash

Matthew Reynolds

Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow

Tom McCarthy

Running Away by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, translated by Matthew Smith
La Vérité sur Marie by Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Patrick McGuinness

Poem: ‘Charleville’

Christine Smallwood

A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff
The Group by Mary McCarthy

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

August Kleinzahler

Diary: Selling Up

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