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Vol. 34 No. 16 · 30 August 2012
David Trotter
Lady Chatterley’s Sneakers
Letters
Karuna Mantena, Rosinka Chaudhuri, Amit Pandya, Ananya Vajpeyi, Andrew Whitehead, Miles Larmer, Marina Warner, A.E.J. Fitchett, Stan Persky
Steven Shapin
World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement by Robert Crease. Norton, 317 pp., £18.99, October 2011, 978 0 393 07298 3
Karl Miller
New Selected Journals, 1939-95 by Stephen Spender and Lara Feigel, edited by John Sutherland. Faber, 792 pp., £45, July 2012, 978 0 571 23757 9
Bill Manhire
Two Poems
Stefan Collini
Letters of T.S. Eliot, Vol. III: 1926-27 edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden. Faber, 954 pp., £40, July 2012, 978 0 571 14085 5
Bruce Whitehouse
What went wrong in Mali?
John Burnside
Three Poems
Stephen Sedley
Living Originalism by Jack Balkin. Harvard, 474 pp., £25.95, January 2012, 978 0 674 06178 1
A.W. Moore
Writing the Book of the World by Theodore Sider. Oxford, 318 pp., £30, November 2011, 978 0 19 969790 8
Julian Bell
At Tate Modern: Edvard Munch
David Conn
Follow the Money
David Bromwich
Short Cuts: Romney-Ryan
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘The Lovely Redhead’
Lidija Haas
Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller by Jennifer Kloester. Heinemann, 448 pp., £20, October 2011, 978 0 434 02071 3
Sheila Heti
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner. Granta, 181 pp., £14.99, July 2012, 978 1 84708 689 1
Benjamin Lytal
Seven Years by Peter Stamm, translated by Michael Hofmann. Granta, 264 pp., £14.99, April 2012, 978 1 84708 509 2
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Lodger’
Emily Witt
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea by Donovan Hohn. Union, 402 pp., £8.99, September 2012, 978 1 908526 02 1
Iain Sinclair
Diary: My Olympics
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