Vol. 33 No. 1 · 6 January 2011
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Vol. 33 No. 1 · 6 January 2011
Eliot Weinberger
Decision Points by George W. Bush. Virgin, 497 pp., £25, November 2010, 978 0 7535 3966 8
Letters
Kit Withnail, Angus MacDonald, Simon Szreter, Hubertus Jahn, Lorna Finlayson, Steven Methven, Peter James
Andrew O’Hagan
Saul Bellow: Letters edited by Benjamin Taylor. Viking, 571 pp., $35, November 2010, 978 0 670 02221 2
Hugh Pennington
Bug-Affairs
Stephen Sedley
When should a judge not be a judge?
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Shop around the Corner’
Jeremy Waldron
Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond by David Runciman. Princeton, 272 pp., £13.95, September 2010, 978 0 691 14815 1 Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics by Martin Jay. Virginia, 241 pp., $24.95, April 2010, 978 0 8139 2972 9
Lawrence Norfolk
Thoughts about Boars and Paul Celan
Lidija Haas
What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness by Candia McWilliam. Cape, 482 pp., £18.99, August 2010, 978 0 224 08898 5
Christopher Prendergast
Short Cuts: Student Loans
Adam Phillips
The Sixties: Diaries 1960-69 by Christopher Isherwood, edited by Katherine Bucknell. Chatto, 756 pp., £30, November 2010, 978 0 7011 6940 4
Bernard Porter
The Gun: The AK-47 and the Evolution of War by C.J. Chivers. Allen Lane, 481 pp., £25, November 2010, 978 0 7139 9837 5
J. Hoberman
Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the 1950s’ Soviet Dream by Francis Spufford. Faber, 434 pp., £16.99, August 2010, 978 0 571 22523 1
Greg Grandin
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers. Penguin, 368 pp., £8.99, 0 14 104681 3
David Harsent
Poem: ‘The Queen Bee Canticles’
Peter Campbell
At the National Portrait Gallery: Thomas Lawrence
Bee Wilson
Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman by Elizabeth Abbott. Duckworth, 510 pp., £20, 0 7156 3946 3
Glen Newey
Diary: Life with WikiLeaks
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