Vol. 35 No. 12 · 20 June 2013

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Cover Artist

Beth Holgate

James Meek

All That Is by James Salter. Picador, 290 pp., £18.99, May 2013, 978 1 4472 3824 9
Collected Stories by James Salter. Picador, 303 pp., £18.99, May 2013, 978 1 4472 3938 3

Letters

David Campbell, Laetitia van Haren, Tim Gutteridge, Matthias Tomczak, James Grainger, Hugh Brogan, David Miller, Phil Edwards, Bernard Liengme, Grace Kenny, Robert Barrett

Jonathan Portes

The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Postwar Immigration by David Goodhart. Atlantic, 381 pp., £20, April 2013, 978 1 84354 805 8

Jeremy Harding

Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa by Isak Niehaus. Cambridge, 239 pp., £60, December 2012, 978 1 107 01628 6

Jean Sprackland

Poem: ‘Sleeping Keys’

Stefan Collini

C.S. Lewis: A Life by Alister McGrath. Hodder, 431 pp., £20, April 2013, 978 1 4447 4552 8

Andrew O’Hagan

The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales. HarperCollins, 288 pp., £7.99, May 2013, 978 0 00 751822 7

Ross McKibbin

Murdoch’s Politics: How One Man’s Thirst for Wealth & Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight. Pluto, 260 pp., £12.99, February 2013, 978 0 7453 3346 5

Matthew Beaumont

Short Cuts: The route to Tyburn Tree

James Romm

Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece by Ian Worthington. Oxford, 382 pp., £22.50, January 2012, 978 0 19 993195 8

Daniel Lazare

The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand. Verso, 344 pp., £9.99, June 2010, 978 1 84467 623 1
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand. Verso, 295 pp., £16.99, January 2013, 978 1 84467 946 1

Nick Richardson

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid. Hamish Hamilton, 228 pp., £14.99, March 2013, 978 0 241 14466 4

August Kleinzahler

Two Poems

Tariq Ali

The Filthy Rich Election

Geoff Dyer

In Transit: Garry Winogrand

Deborah Friedell

Big Brother by Lionel Shriver. HarperCollins, 373 pp., £16.99, May 2013, 978 0 00 727109 2

Emily Cooke

Young Man with a Horn by Dorothy Baker. NYRB, 185 pp., £8.99, March 2012, 978 1 59017 577 4
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker. NYRB, 241 pp., £8.99, September 2012, 978 1 59017 601 6

Fredrick Harris

Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin. California, 539 pp., £24.95, January 2013, 978 0 520 27185 2

Kirill Medvedev

Diary: State of the Russian Left

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