Vol. 32 No. 5 · 11 March 2010

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Vol. 32 No. 5 · 11 March 2010

John Lanchester

The Great British Economy Disaster

Letters

Constance Borde & Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Michelle Sommers, Deborah Frankel Reese, Gabriel Kahn, Timothy Johnston, Toril Moi, T.J. Clark, Richard Bowring, T.J. Gorton, Aidan Foster-Carter, Ian MacDougall, Oscar Turnill, B. Goff

Lynn Hunt

The Devil in the Holy Water, or, The Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon by Robert Darnton
Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech by Charles Walton

Yonatan Mendel

Hasbara

David Simpson

War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime by Mary Favret

Frederick Seidel

Poem: ‘London’

R.W. Johnson

The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa by Bertrand Taithe

Colin Burrow

The Infinities by John Banville

Tessa Hadley

The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam

Robert Crawford

Poem: ‘Guide’

Helen Hackett

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro

Adam Shatz

Short Cuts: The Short Career of Amy Bishop

Christopher Tayler

The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years by Clive James

Amy Larocca

Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee by Noralee Frankel
Gypsy: The Art of the Tease by Rachel Shteir

Peter Campbell

At the Gagosian: ‘Crash’

Conor Gearty

The Law of Human Rights by Richard Clayton and Hugh Tomlinson
Human Rights Law and Practice edited by Anthony Lester, David Pannick and Javan Herberg
Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom by Jack Beatson, Stephen Grosz, Tom Hickman, Rabinder Singh and Stephanie Palmer

James Oakes

Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders’ New World Order by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese

John Hartley Williams

Poem: ‘Memory of the Night of 4’

Jonathan Lear

The Evocative Object World by Christopher Bollas
The Infinite Question by Christopher Bollas

Tim Dee

Diary: Twitching

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