Vol. 33 No. 4 · 17 February 2011

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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

Robin Robertson

Two Poems

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-29 by Kenneth Pinnow

Jeremy Harding

Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values and What It Means to Be Human by Scott Atran

Tony Harrison

Poem: ‘Cornet and Cartridge’

Mark Kishlansky

The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley by Thomas Corns, Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein

Colin Burrow

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols XXI-XXIII: The Lives of the Poets edited by John Middendorf

John Lanchester

Short Cuts: Unlikeabilityfest

Mary Beard

Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us by Ferdinand Mount

Robert Crawford

Two Poems

Emma Dench

Popular Culture in Ancient Rome by Jerry Toner

Christopher Tayler

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman

Thomas Jones

Pulse by Julian Barnes
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes

T.J. Clark

At Tate Modern: Gabriel Orozco

David Kaiser

Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose
How Old Is the Universe? by David Weintraub

Anne Enright

Diary: Lessons from Angela Carter

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