Vol. 32 No. 19 · 7 October 2010

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Vol. 32 No. 19 · 7 October 2010

David Runciman

A Journey by Tony Blair. Hutchinson, 718 pp., £25, September 2010, 978 0 09 192555 0

Letters

Edward Fullbrook, Kirsty Gunn, David Craig, Mark McGurl, Robert Crawford, Elizabeth Young, Matt Fretton, Andrew Wilton, Josephine Lloyd, Michael Robertson, Andrew Williams

Helen Cooper

The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War by Ardis Butterfield. Oxford, 444 pp., £60, December 2009, 978 0 19 957486 5

James Lever

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. Fourth Estate, 562 pp., £20, September 2010, 978 0 00 726975 4

Blake Morrison

My Father’s Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn. Faber, 255 pp., £16.99, September 2010, 978 0 571 27058 3

Tom Bingham

Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire by Paul Halliday. Harvard, 502 pp., £29.95, March 2010, 978 0 674 04901 7

Anne Carson

Two Sonnets

Colin Kidd

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson. Allen Lane, 345 pp., £25, August 2010, 978 0 7139 9396 7
Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy: Cosmopolitanism and moral theory by Fonna Forman-Barzilai. Cambridge, 286 pp., £55, March 2010, 978 0 521 76112 3

Marina Warner

Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood by Laurie Maguire. Wiley-Blackwell, 280 pp., £55, April 2009, 978 1 4051 2634 2

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Facebook Break-Ups

John Burnside

Two Poems

Michael Newton

The Passion of Montgomery Clift by Amy Lawrence. California, 333 pp., £16.95, May 2010, 978 0 520 26047 4

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Certified Copy’

Peter Campbell

At Tate Britain: Rachel Whiteread

Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy. Johns Hopkins, 296 pp., £16.50, May 2008, 978 0 8018 8822 9

Deyan Sudjic

The Architecture of Community by Léon Krier. Island, 459 pp., £12.99, February 2010, 978 1 59726 579 9

Daniel Finn

The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party by Brian Hanley and Scott Millar. Penguin, 658 pp., £9.99, April 2010, 978 0 14 102845 3

John Ashbery

Two Poems

Christopher de Bellaigue

Diary: In Afghanistan

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