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Vol. 33 No. 14 · 14 July 2011
John Lanchester
Once Greece goes…
Letters
David Willetts, Edward Fullbrook, Michael Holzman, Stephen Sedley, Peter Hudis, Jeremy Bernstein, Igor Cherstich, Susan DiGiacomo, Gabriele vom Bruck, Aidan Varney
Franziska Augstein
Who is Angela Merkel?
Adam Shatz
Is Palestine Next?
Anthony Grafton
A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’ ‘Germania’ from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher Krebs. Norton, 303 pp., £18.99, June 2011, 978 0 393 06265 6
Andrew O’Hagan
The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge. Little, Brown, 197 pp., £16.99, May 2011, 978 0 316 72848 5
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Senna’
Stephanie Burt
Nox by Anne Carson. New Directions, 192 pp., £19.99, April 2010, 978 0 8112 1870 2
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Radio 3’s ‘X Factor’
Christopher Tayler
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron. Chatto, 227 pp., £16.99, February 2011, 978 0 7011 8379 0
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Weidenfeld, 638 pp., £25, January 2011, 978 0 297 85265 0
C.A. Bayly
Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism by Karuna Mantena. Princeton, 269 pp., £27.95, March 2011, 978 0 691 12816 0
Bernard Porter
The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham. Allen Lane, 634 pp., £30, January 2011, 978 0 7139 9964 8
Glen Newey
Great Books, Bad Arguments: ‘Republic’, ‘Leviathan’ and ‘The Communist Manifesto’ by W.G. Runciman. Princeton, 127 pp., £13.95, March 2010, 978 0 691 14476 4 Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy by Bonnie Honig. Princeton, 197 pp., £15.95, August 2011, 978 0 691 15259 2
Peter Campbell
At Tate Modern: Miró
Kathleen Jamie
Diary: In the West Highlands
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