Vol. 32 No. 4 · 25 February 2010

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Peter Campbell

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Vol. 32 No. 4 · 25 February 2010

Keith Gessen

The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos Affair by Richard Sakwa

Letters

William Wheeler, David Rose, Jeremy Bernstein, Anne Summers, Klemens Renoldner and six others, Colin Crisp, Mark Williams, Adam Barker, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Malcolm Ross, Laleh Khalili

Ross McKibbin

Good for Business

Susan Pedersen

Demobbed: Coming Home after the Second World War by Alan Allport
The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939-45 by Martin Francis

Anne Carson

Poem: ‘Good Dog’

Andrew O’Hagan

The Book of the Moon by Rick Stroud
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon by Craig Nelson
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon by Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham

Graham Robb

The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity by Michael Camille

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘Untitled’

Richard Hamblyn

To Sea and Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon by Richard Shelton

Peter Campbell

At Victoria Miro: William Eggleston

Seamus Perry

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment by William McCarthy

Jenny Diski

Short Cuts: Fragrant Antonia Fraser

Tim Whitmarsh

Lucian: A Selection edited by Neil Hopkinson

Emma Dench

Rome’s Cultural Revolution by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

John Pemble

Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England by Adam Kuper

Michael Wood

At the Movies: Yasujiro Ozu

Peter Mair

A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy by Martin Bell

August Kleinzahler

Poem: ‘Closing It Down on the Palisades’

Will Self

Diary: On the Common

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