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Vol. 33 No. 16 · 25 August 2011
Thomas Powers
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable. Allen Lane, 592 pp., £30, April 2011, 978 0 7139 9895 5
Letters
Sarah Gellner, Diana Wallace, Stephen Burt, Louise Hirsch, Alex Lockwood, S.C. McFarlane, Stephen Sedley, Christopher Allen, Michael Robertson, Joe Kerrigan
Corey Robin
The War on Tax
Stefan Collini
Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, £79, June 2011, 978 0 10 181222 1
Jo Glanville
‘Auntie Mabel doesn’t give a toss about Serbia’
Eric Hobsbawm
Scientist Spies: A Memoir of My Three Parents and the Atom Bomb by Paul Broda. Troubador, 333 pp., £17.50, April 2011, 978 1 84876 607 5
Thomas Laqueur
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John Dower. Norton/The New Press, 596 pp., £22, October 2010, 978 0 393 06150 5
David Kaiser
Short Cuts: The Higgs Boson
Lavinia Greenlaw
Poem: ‘Actaeon’
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Crimea: The Last Crusade by Orlando Figes. Penguin, 575 pp., £12.99, June 2011, 978 0 14 101350 3
T.J. Clark
At Dulwich: Poussin and Twombly
Adam Phillips
Byron in Geneva: That Summer of 1816 by David Ellis. Liverpool, 189 pp., £25, September 2011, 978 1 84631 643 2
Marina Warner
At the Hayward: Tracey Emin
Tobias Gregory
The Plain Man’s Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640 by Christopher Haigh. Oxford, 284 pp., £32, September 2009, 978 0 19 921650 5
Thomas Jones
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. Bloomsbury, 353 pp., £12.99, June 2011, 978 1 4088 1859 6
Stephen Walsh
Ravel by Roger Nichols. Yale, 430 pp., £25, April 2011, 978 0 300 10882 8
Jeremy Harding
Diary: In Palestine
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