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Vol. 35 No. 4 · 21 February 2013
Hilary Mantel
Royal Bodies
Letters
Alex Bailin, Vance Maverick, Robert Kaplan, Fazia Aitel, Chris Edwards, University of East Anglia, George Irvin, School of Oriental and African Studies, Howard Reed, Landman Economics, Colchester, Mary Baldwin, Marc Haefele, Mary Camps, Rob Close, Murray Biggs
David Runciman
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines. Harper, 400 pp., £20, January 2013, 978 0 00 743584 5
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
How to Start a Battalion (in Five Easy Lessons)
Malcolm Bull
On Global Justice by Mathias Risse. Princeton, 465 pp., £27.95, October 2012, 978 0 691 14269 2
Simon Armitage
Poem: ‘Deor’
Adam Mars-Jones
Harvest by Jim Crace. Picador, 273 pp., £16.99, February 2013, 978 0 330 44566 5
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle against Fascism by Richard Baxell. Aurum, 516 pp., £25, September 2012, 978 1 84513 697 0 I Am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men and Women Who Went to Fight Fascism by David Boyd Haycock. Old Street, 363 pp., £25, October 2012, 978 1 908699 10 7
Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: Clytemnestra du jour
Rosemary Hill
The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel. Bloomsbury, 519 pp., £25, January 2013, 978 1 4088 3044 4
Jenny Turner
Every Short Story 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray. Canongate, 933 pp., £30, November 2012, 978 0 85786 560 1
Julian Bell
At the Royal Academy: Manet
Charles Glass
House of Stone by Anthony Shadid. Granta, 336 pp., £14.99, August 2012, 978 1 84708 735 5
Mark Ford
Baudelaire: The Complete Verse edited and translated by Francis Scarfe. Anvil, 470 pp., £10.95, January 2012, 978 0 85646 427 0 Baudelaire: Paris Blues/Le Spleen de Paris edited and translated by Francis Scarfe. Anvil, 332 pp., £10.95, January 2012, 978 0 85646 429 4 Seeing Double: Baudelaire’s Modernity by Françoise Meltzer. Chicago, 264 pp., £29, May 2011, 978 0 226 51988 3
Philip Nobel
To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure by Henry Petroski. Harvard, 410 pp., £19.95, March 2012, 978 0 674 06584 0
Richard J. Evans
Was Hitler Ill? by Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle, translated by Nick Somers. Polity, 244 pp., £20, November 2012, 978 0 7456 5222 1
Yonatan Mendel
Diary: Israel’s Election
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