Vol. 35 No. 17 · 12 September 2013

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Vol. 35 No. 17 · 12 September 2013

Hugh Roberts

The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life by Roger Owen
Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria by Joshua Stacher
Raging against the Machine: Political Opposition under Authoritarianism in Egypt by Holger Albrecht
Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen: Egypt’s Road to Revolt by Hazem Kandil

Letters

Christopher Farman, Kieran Lyons, Hugh Cunningham, Moira Dustin, William Vesterman, Richard Williams

John Mullan

Memoirs of a Leavisite: The Decline and Fall of Cambridge English by David Ellis
English as a Vocation: The ‘Scrutiny’ Movement by Christopher Hilliard
The Two Cultures? The Significance of C.P. Snow by F.R. Leavis

Stephen Sedley

The British Constitution: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Loughlin

John Kerrigan

Being and Having in Shakespeare by Katharine Eisaman Maus

Adam Mars-Jones

Unexploded by Alison MacLeod

Andrew O’Hagan

Short Cuts: ‘The Trip to Echo Spring’

Edmund Gordon

TransAtlantic by Colum McCann

John Burnside

Three Poems

Gilberto Perez

How We Remember

Robert Alter

The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography by John Collins
The Essenes, the Scrolls and the Dead Sea by Joan Taylor

Peter Canby

Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru by Kimberly Theidon

Frederick Seidel

Three Poems

Greg Afinogenov

Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov edited by Robert Chandler
Red Spectres: Russian 20th-Century Gothic-Fantastic Tales translated by Muireann Maguire
Stalin’s Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature by Muireann Maguire

Richard J. Evans

The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle by Bernhard Rieger

Eleanor Birne

At Dulwich Picture Gallery: ‘A Crisis of Brilliance’

Jenny Diski

Diary: In Defence of Liz Jones

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