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Vol. 35 No. 9 · 9 May 2013
Richard Lloyd Parry
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future by Victor Cha. Bodley Head, 527 pp., £14.99, August 2012, 978 1 84792 236 6
Letters
Glen Newey, Simon Darragh, Millicent Dillon, Tom Chance, Matt Shipton, Judith Richards, Nick Black, Clancy Sigal, Sam Solecki, Stephen Sedley, Steve Gooch, Michael Walker, Tom Smith
Terry Eagleton
The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West by Brian Levack. Yale, 346 pp., £25, March 2013, 978 0 300 11472 0
Karl Miller
A Delicate Truth by John le Carré. Viking, 310 pp., £18.99, April 2013, 978 0 670 92279 6 The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham by Michael Jago. Biteback, 308 pp., £20, February 2013, 978 1 84954 513 6
James Meek
The Depositor Haircut
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Servant’
Donald MacKenzie
The Magic Lever
Michael Wood
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes. Cape, 118 pp., £10.99, April 2013, 978 0 224 09815 1
Christian Lorentzen
Short Cuts: Snotty American Brat
Seth Colter Walls
Middle C by William Gass. Knopf, 416 pp., £19, March 2013, 978 0 307 70163 3
Ian Sansom
House of Earth: A Novel by Woody Guthrie. Fourth Estate, 234 pp., £14.99, February 2013, 978 0 00 750985 0
Jean Sprackland
Poem: ‘Last Resort’
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Trent: What Happened at the Council by John O’Malley. Harvard, 335 pp., £20, January 2013, 978 0 674 06697 7
Marshall Sahlins
Human Science
Emma Dench
Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within by Christian Laes. Cambridge, 334 pp., £68, March 2011, 978 0 521 89746 4 Children, Memory and Family Identity in Roman Culture edited by Véronique Dasen and Thomas Späth. Oxford, 373 pp., £82, October 2011, 978 0 19 958257 0
Charles Simic
Four Poems
Thomas Keymer
Orientalist Jones: Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer and Linguist, 1746-94 by Michael Franklin. Oxford, 396 pp., £35, September 2011, 978 0 19 953200 1
Charles Hope
At the National Gallery: Barocci
Sadakat Kadri
A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa by A.T. Williams. Cape, 298 pp., £16.99, October 2012, 978 0 224 09688 1
Iain Sinclair
Diary: Thatcher in Gravesend
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