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Vol. 32 No. 22 · 18 November 2010
David Bromwich
The Fastidious President
Letters
Vitor Alves, Grant Duncan, Constance Blackwell, Ben Bollig, Barbara Smoker, Malcolm Andrews, Albion Urdank, M. Smithurst, Roger Morsley-Smith, Louise Hirsch, Nicholas Faith, Geoffrey Taunton
Julian Barnes
Madame Bovary: Provincial Ways by Gustave Flaubert and Lydia Davis. Penguin, 342 pp., £20, November 2010, 978 1 84614 104 1
Ross McKibbin
Nothing to do with the economy
August Kleinzahler
Two Poems
Blair Worden
Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon by Nigel Smith. Yale, 400 pp., £25, September 2010, 978 0 300 11221 4
Peter Campbell
On Radio 4: ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’
Bernard Porter
GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency by Richard Aldrich. Harper, 666 pp., £30, June 2010, 978 0 00 727847 3
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: The 1970s
Gilberto Perez
Hollywood Westerns and American Myth by Robert Pippin. Yale, 198 pp., £25, May 2010, 978 0 300 14577 9
R.F. Langley
Poem: ‘To a Nightingale’
David Simpson
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture by Joshua Phillips. Verso, 237 pp., £16.99, September 2010, 978 1 84467 599 9
Tim Lewens
Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity and Policy by Sandra Mitchell. Chicago, 149 pp., £19, December 2009, 978 0 226 53262 2
Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘Strindberg in Skovlyst’
Greg Woolf
Archimedes and the Roman Imagination by Mary Jaeger. Michigan, 230 pp., £64.50, June 2010, 978 0 472 11630 0
Tessa Hadley
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson, translated by Anne Born. Harvill Secker, 233 pp., £12.99, July 2010, 978 1 84655 301 1
Adam Reiss
Diary: On a Dawn Raid
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