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Vol. 35 No. 15 · 8 August 2013
Andrew O’Hagan
Boys and Girls
Letters
John Hendry, Iain Ramsay & Toni Williams, Marina Warner, Anne Summers, Albion Urdank, Gabriel Danovitch, Wayne Sumner, Andrew Coulson, William Firebrace, Jay Boggis, John Bailey, Máire Davies
Ian Hacking
DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition by the American Psychiatric Association. American Psychiatric Publishing, 947 pp., £97, May 2013, 978 0 89042 555 8
Tim Parks
Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens by Robert Gottlieb. Farrar, Straus, 239 pp., £16.99, December 2012, 978 0 374 29880 7
Mary Ann Caws
Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist by Diane Radycki. Yale, 246 pp., £40, 0 300 18530 8
Susan Pedersen
The British People and the League of Nations: Democracy, Citizenship and Internationalism, c.1918-45 by Helen McCarthy. Manchester, 282 pp., £65, November 2011, 978 0 7190 8616 8 A Lark for the Sake of Their Country: The 1926 General Strike Volunteers in Folklore and Memory by Rachelle Hope Saltzman. Manchester, 262 pp., £65, April 2012, 978 0 7190 7977 1
Lee Harwood
Poem: ‘The Oak Coffer’
Colm Tóibín
The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht edited by Jonathan Post. Johns Hopkins, 365 pp., £18, November 2012, 978 1 4214 0730 2
Adam Shatz
Short Cuts: Morsi’s Overthrow
John Barrell
At Tate Britain: L.S. Lowry
Michael Wood
Multiples edited by Adam Thirlwell. Portobello, 380 pp., £20, August 2013, 978 1 84627 537 1
Rae Armantrout
Two Poems
Adam Mars-Jones
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride. Galley Beggar, 203 pp., £11, June 2013, 978 0 9571853 2 6
Benjamin Kunkel
Introduction to Antiphilosophy by Boris Groys. Verso, 248 pp., £16.99, April 2012, 978 1 84467 756 6
Wes Enzinna
In Varna
Mike Jay
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes. William Collins, 404 pp., £25, April 2013, 978 0 00 738692 5
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Cleopatra’
Kathleen Jamie
The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare. Fourth Estate, 374 pp., £18.99, June 2013, 978 0 00 741211 2
Peter Green
Trouble in the West: Egypt and the Persian Empire, 525-332 BC by Stephen Ruzicka. Oxford, 311 pp., £45, April 2012, 978 0 19 976662 8 King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. Edinburgh, 258 pp., £24.99, January 2013, 978 0 7486 4125 3
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Diary: The Turkish Left
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