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Vol. 32 No. 23 · 2 December 2010
Sheila Fitzpatrick
A Spy in the Archives
Letters
Norman Davies, Antony Polonsky, Roman Szporluk, Charles Coutinho, Richard J. Evans, Anthony Curtis, Caroline de Costa, Joseph Kerman, Matthew Barr, Stephen Longstaffe, Lois Lee, John A. Davis, Gerald Carpenter, François Thouvenot, Edgar Lloyd, Bill Myers, Gerard McBurney, Alison Mace, Christine Shuttleworth, Edward Buscombe, Martha Buddecke
Charles Nicholl
The Arden Shakespeare: Double Falsehood edited by Brean Hammond. Arden Shakespeare, 443 pp., £16.99, March 2010, 978 1 903436 77 6
Julian Bell
Salvator Rosa: Bandits, Wilderness and Magic by Helen Langdon, Xavier Salomon and Caterina Volpi. Paul Holberton, 240 pp., £40, September 2010, 978 1 907372 01 8 Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of 17th-Century Italian Painters by Richard Spear and Philip Sohm et al. Yale, 384 pp., £45, 0 300 15456 9 Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon. Allen Lane, 514 pp., £30, July 2010, 978 0 7139 9674 6 The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried. Princeton, 304 pp., £34.95, 0 691 14701 9
James Harkin
Death to the Dictator! Witnessing Iran’s Election and the Crippling of the Islamic Republic by Afsaneh Moqadam. Bodley Head, 134 pp., £10.99, May 2010, 978 1 84792 146 8 The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov. Allen Lane, 408 pp., £14.99, January 2011, 978 1 84614 353 3 Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran by Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany. I.B. Tauris, 240 pp., £14.99, September 2010, 978 1 84511 607 1
Christopher Prendergast
Short Cuts: Sarah Palin’s Favourite Frenchman
T.J. Clark
At the Courtauld: Symptoms of Cézannoia
Robert Alter
The Tables of the Law by Thomas Mann, translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann. Haus, 113 pp., £10, October 2010, 978 1 906598 84 6
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland South-East Asia by James C. Scott. Yale, 442 pp., £16.99, January 2011, 978 0 300 16917 1
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Peeping Tom’
Christopher Tayler
J.G. Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries edited by Lavinia Greacen. Cork, 464 pp., €19.95, September 2010, 978 1 85918 476 9
Matthew Sweeney
Two Poems
Thomas Jones
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy. Canongate, 219 pp., £7.99, 9781847674166
David Morley
Three Poems
Will Self
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women by James Ellroy. Heinemann, 203 pp., £16.99, September 2010, 978 0 434 02064 5
August Kleinzahler
Diary: My Last Big Road Trip
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