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Vol. 33 No. 4 · 17 February 2011
Issandr El Amrani
Why Tunis, Why Cairo?
Letters
J. Oldaker, Joseph Choonara, Martin Sanderson, William Sherman, Morris Singer, Simon Down, David Maclagan, Stephen Kay, Gordon Petherbridge, Damian Grant, David Arney, Malcolm Mitchell, Phil Gyford, Brian McAvera, Osi Rhys Osmond, François Thouvenot, David Auerbach
Henry Siegman
Obama’s Choice
Adam Shatz
After Mubarak
Michael Wood
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Harvill, 513 pp., £20, October 2011, 978 1 84655 379 0
Robin Robertson
Two Poems
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-29 by Kenneth Pinnow. Cornell, 276 pp., £32.95, March 2011, 978 0 8014 4766 2
Jeremy Harding
Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values and What It Means to Be Human by Scott Atran. Allen Lane, 558 pp., £25, November 2010, 978 1 84614 412 7
Tony Harrison
Poem: ‘Cornet and Cartridge’
Mark Kishlansky
The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley by Thomas Corns, Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein. Oxford, 1065 pp., £189, December 2009, 978 0 19 957606 7
Colin Burrow
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols XXI-XXIII: The Lives of the Poets edited by John Middendorf. Yale, 1696 pp., £180, July 2010, 978 0 300 12314 2
John Lanchester
Short Cuts: Unlikeabilityfest
Mary Beard
Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us by Ferdinand Mount. Simon and Schuster, 438 pp., £20, June 2010, 978 1 84737 798 2
Robert Crawford
Two Poems
Emma Dench
Popular Culture in Ancient Rome by Jerry Toner. Polity, 253 pp., £17.99, July 2009, 978 0 7456 4310 6
Christopher Tayler
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman. Granta, 296 pp., £16.99, April 2011, 978 1 84708 313 5
Thomas Jones
Pulse by Julian Barnes. Cape, 228 pp., £16.99, January 2011, 978 0 224 09108 4 Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes. Vintage, 250 pp., £8.99, March 2009, 978 0 09 952374 1
T.J. Clark
At Tate Modern: Gabriel Orozco
David Kaiser
Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose. Bodley Head, 288 pp., £25, September 2010, 978 0 224 08036 1 How Old Is the Universe? by David Weintraub. Princeton, 370 pp., £20.95, 0 691 14731 0
Anne Enright
Diary: Lessons from Angela Carter
Extra
Adam Shatz
After Egypt
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