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Vol. 33 No. 12 · 16 June 2011
Stephen Sedley
The Goodwin and Giggs Show
Letters
Lawrence Rosen, Maurice Plaskow, Tim Allen, John Hipkin, Eric Gordon, Eoin Dillon, Kristin Surak, James Oakes, Tom Smith, Alan Williamson
Jacqueline Rose
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg edited by Georg Adler, Peter Hudis and Annelies Laschitza, translated by George Shriver. Verso, 609 pp., £25, February 2011, 978 1 84467 453 4
Tariq Ali
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 by Rodric Braithwaite. Profile, 417 pp., £25, March 2011, 978 1 84668 054 0 A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan by Artemy Kalinovsky. Harvard, 304 pp., £20.95, May 2011, 978 0 674 05866 8
Andrew Bacevich
Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis: Suez and the Brink of War by David Nichols. Simon and Schuster, 346 pp., £21, March 2011, 978 1 4391 3933 2
Colin Kidd
King James VI and I and His English Parliaments by Conrad Russell, edited by Richard Cust and Andrew Thrush. Oxford, 195 pp., £55, February 2011, 978 0 19 820506 7
Colin Burrow
A Man of Parts by David Lodge. Harvill, 565 pp., £18.99, March 2011, 978 1 84655 496 4
Sam Thompson
Embassytown by China Miéville. Macmillan, 490 pp., £17.99, April 2011, 978 0 230 75076 0
Michael Wood
At the Movies: Carlos Saura
Andrew O’Hagan
The Excursions
Mahmood Mamdani
Short Cuts: Protest in Uganda
Robert VanderMolen
Two Poems
Peter Campbell
At the British Museum: ‘Out of Australia’
David Blackbourn
Nature’s Interpreter: The Life and Times of Alexander von Humboldt by Donald McCrory. Lutterworth, 242 pp., £23, November 2010, 978 0 7188 9231 9
Tim Whitmarsh
Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue and the Invention of Greek Prose by Leslie Kurke. Princeton, 495 pp., £20.95, December 2010, 978 0 691 14458 0
John Pemble
Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody by Carolyn Williams. Columbia, 454 pp., £24, January 2011, 978 0 231 14804 7
Hamish MacGibbon
Diary: My Father the Spy
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