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Vol. 35 No. 8 · 25 April 2013
Ross McKibbin
Anything but Benevolent
Letters
Vic Carroll, John Stephenson, David Moore, Julian Rushton, Ed Morman, Jack Kurtz, John Kirkham, Neil Mullin, Ben Bethell, Harshan Kumarasingham
Adam Shatz
Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and Its Consequences by James Buchan. John Murray, 482 pp., £25, November 2012, 978 1 84854 066 8
Nick Richardson
Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun. Cape, 224 pp., £14.99, February 2013, 978 0 224 09662 1
James Meek
‘The Enchanted Wanderer’ and Other Stories by Nikolai Leskov, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Vintage, 608 pp., £25, April 2013, 978 0 09 957735 5 The Enchanted Wanderer by Nikolai Leskov, translated by Ian Dreiblatt. Melville House, 256 pp., £8.99, August 2012, 978 1 61219 103 4
David Runciman
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time by Ira Katznelson. Norton, 706 pp., £22, April 2013, 978 0 87140 450 3
Ian Donaldson
The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney edited by Roger Kuin. Oxford, 1381 pp., £250, July 2012, 978 0 19 955822 3
Adam Mars-Jones
Secrecy by Rupert Thomson. Granta, 312 pp., £14.99, March 2013, 978 1 84708 163 6
Tariq Ali
Short Cuts: Trouble in Sri Lanka
John Burnside
A Winter Mind
Lidija Haas
Everything Is Nice: Collected Stories, Sketches and Plays by Jane Bowles. Sort Of, 416 pp., £10.99, December 2012, 978 1 908745 15 6
Peter Green
The Mutilation of the Herms: Unpacking an Ancient Mystery by Debra Hamel. CreateSpace, 54 pp., £5, March 2012, 978 1 4750 5193 3
Matthew Sweeney
Two Poems
Inigo Thomas
In the Library
Terry Eagleton
The Correspondence of George Berkeley edited by Marc Hight. Cambridge, 674 pp., £75, November 2012, 978 1 107 00074 2
Ange Mlinko
Poem: ‘Civilisation’
Rosemary Hill
Self-Portrait as a Young Man by Roy Strong. Bodleian, 286 pp., £25, March 2013, 978 1 85124 282 5
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘By Chance the Cycladic People’
Karl Miller
On Thatcher
Peter Pomerantsev
Diary: Berezovsky’s Last Days
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