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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. Oxford, 426 pp., £55, May 2009, 978 0 19 921157 9
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. Yale, 265 pp., £20, October 2009, 978 0 300 14043 9 The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939-45 by Martin Francis. Oxford, 266 pp., £32, November 2008, 978 0 19 927748 3
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘Good Dog’
Andrew O’Hagan
The Book of the Moon by Rick Stroud. Doubleday, 368 pp., £16.99, May 2009, 978 0 385 61386 6 Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon by Craig Nelson. John Murray, 404 pp., £18.99, June 2009, 978 0 7195 6948 7 Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon by Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham. Bloomsbury, 336 pp., £16.99, July 2009, 978 1 4088 0402 5
Graham Robb
The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity by Michael Camille. Chicago, 439 pp., £34, June 2009, 978 0 226 09245 4
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Untitled’
Richard Hamblyn
To Sea and Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon by Richard Shelton. Atlantic, 213 pp., £18.99, October 2009, 978 1 84354 784 6
Peter Campbell
At Victoria Miro: William Eggleston
Seamus Perry
Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment by William McCarthy. Johns Hopkins, 725 pp., £32, December 2008, 978 0 8018 9016 1
Jenny Diski
Short Cuts: Fragrant Antonia Fraser
Tim Whitmarsh
Lucian: A Selection edited by Neil Hopkinson. Cambridge, 239 pp., £19.99, October 2008, 978 0 521 84200 6
Emma Dench
Rome’s Cultural Revolution by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. Cambridge, 502 pp., £29.99, November 2008, 978 0 521 72160 8
John Pemble
Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England by Adam Kuper. Harvard, 296 pp., £20.95, November 2009, 978 0 674 03589 8
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. Icon, 246 pp., £11.99, October 2009, 978 1 84831 096 4
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘Closing It Down on the Palisades’
Will Self
Diary: On the Common
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