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Vol. 32 No. 12 · 24 June 2010
Charles Nicholl
‘A Naughty House’
Letters
Hugh Miles, Ian Birchall, Allan Tanner, M. Rozenkranz, Janet Malcolm, Brian Innes, David Bromwich
Bernard Porter
The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa by Sasha Polakow-Suransky. Pantheon, 324 pp., $27.95, May 2010, 978 0 375 42546 2
David Runciman
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens. Atlantic, 435 pp., £20, June 2010, 978 1 84354 921 5
Tony Wood
Nothing but the Truth: Selected Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya. Harvill Secker, 468 pp., £18.99, January 2010, 978 1 84655 239 7
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘On the Virtue of the Dead Tree’
Colin Burrow
The Art of the Sonnet by Stephanie Burt and David Mikics. Harvard, 451 pp., £25.95, May 2010, 978 0 674 04814 0
J. Robert Lennon
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis. Picador, 178 pp., £16.99, July 2010, 978 0 330 44976 2
Terry Eagleton
Heartbreak by Craig Raine. Atlantic, 186 pp., £12.99, July 2010, 978 1 84887 510 4
Rosemary Hill
The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment by Jason Kelly. Yale, 366 pp., £40, January 2010, 978 0 300 15219 7
Jeremy Harding
Short Cuts: Caliban’s Lunch
Adrienne Mayor
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Mediterranean Civilisation by Richard Miles. Allen Lane, 520 pp., £30, March 2010, 978 0 7139 9793 4
Peter Campbell
At Blythe House: The V&A’s Working Store
Stephen Sedley
The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law by Nigel Rodley, with Matt Pollard. Oxford, 697 pp., £85, August 2009, 978 0 19 921507 2 The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Zone, 295 pp., £21.95, November 2009, 978 1 890951 94 8 The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter Leeson. Princeton, 271 pp., £16.95, May 2009, 978 0 691 13747 6
Alex de Waal
Dollarised
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’
Ben Ehrenreich
Diary: Who killed Roque Dalton?
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