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Vol. 33 No. 5 · 3 March 2011
Judith Butler
Who Owns Kafka?
Letters
Diana Johnstone, Keith Flett, Edward Pearce, Charles Coutinho, Ron Haggart, Henry Phillips, Robert Hanks, Nicholas Bateson, Jemima Barnes
Jim Holt
The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr. Atlantic, 276 pp., £17.99, September 2010, 978 1 84887 225 7
Peter Campbell
At Tate Britain: ‘Watercolour’
Terry Eagleton
How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011 by Eric Hobsbawm. Little, Brown, 470 pp., £25, January 2011, 978 1 4087 0287 1
David Cole
Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition by David Garland. Oxford, 417 pp., £21.99, September 2010, 978 0 19 959499 3
John Hartley Williams
Poem: ‘My Way’
Ian Sansom
Caribou Island by David Vann. Penguin, 293 pp., £8.99, January 2011, 978 0 670 91844 7
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: ‘Niche’
C.K. Stead
Battle of the Wasps
Joshua Cohen
Cut Throat Dog by Joshua Sobol, translated by Dalya Bilu. Melville House, 270 pp., £10.99, November 2010, 978 1 935554 21 9
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Les Diaboliques’
Alastair Crooke
Permanent Temporariness
Joshua Kurlantzick
My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist by Sadanand Dhume. Skyhorse, 271 pp., $24.95, April 2009, 978 1 60239 643 2 Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert Kaplan. Random House, 384 pp., £21, October 2010, 978 1 4000 6746 6 Understanding Islam in Indonesia: Politics and Diversity by Robert Pringle. Hawaii, 220 pp., $22, April 2010, 978 0 8248 3415 9
Nick Laird
Letters of Louis MacNeice edited by Jonathan Allison. Faber, 768 pp., £35, May 2010, 978 0 571 22441 8
Jorie Graham
Poem: ‘Dialogue (of the Imagination’s Fear)’
Andrew O’Hagan
Diary: Dr Macgregor’s Diagnosis
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