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Vol. 34 No. 13 · 5 July 2012
Perry Anderson
Gandhi Centre Stage
Letters
Michael Newton, Owen Forsythe, Fiona O’Connor, Michael Flexer, Judith Rascoe, John Calderon, Edward McGuire, Timothy Knapman, Georgina Baidoun, Eoin Dillon, R.W. Johnson, Carl Chastena
Tim Parks
James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker. Phoenix, 608 pp., £14.99, March 2012, 978 0 7538 2860 1
Jenny Turner
At the V&A: Ballgowns
Marina Warner
Damien Hirst Tate Modern
David Runciman
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV: The Passage of Power by Robert Caro. Bodley Head, 712 pp., £30, June 2012, 978 1 84792 217 5
Sadakat Kadri
Dial M for Murdoch by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman. Allen Lane, 360 pp., £20, April 2012, 978 1 84614 603 9
Philip Oltermann
In Berlin
Adam Smyth
The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe (Panizzi Lectures) by Anthony Grafton. British Library, 144 pp., £30, September 2011, 978 0 7123 5845 3
Hugo Williams
Poem: ‘Eucalyptus’
Richard Clogg
In Athens
Deborah Friedell
Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America by Clive Stafford Smith. Harvill Secker, 376 pp., £18.99, July 2012, 978 1 84655 625 8
Christopher Turner
Bauhaus: Art as Life Barbican
Theo Tait
Canada by Richard Ford. Bloomsbury, 420 pp., £18.99, June 2012, 978 0 7475 9860 2
Eliot Weinberger
Poem: ‘The Wall’
Alexandra Walsham
The Queen’s Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I by John Cooper. Faber, 400 pp., £9.99, July 2012, 978 0 571 21827 1
Mattathias Schwartz
DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia by Misha Glenny. Vintage, 432 pp., £8.95, July 2012, 978 0 09 954655 9
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Prometheus’
Bernard Porter
Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister by Andro Linklater. Bloomsbury, 296 pp., £18.99, May 2012, 978 1 4088 2840 3
David Bromwich
Diary: A Bad President
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