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Vol. 35 No. 21 · 7 November 2013
Andrew O’Hagan
Norman Mailer: A Double Life by J. Michael Lennon. Simon and Schuster, 947 pp., £30, November 2013, 978 1 84737 672 5
Letters
Greg Hill, Brendan Griggs, Edward Luttwak, Garth Clarke, Alec McDonald, John Motroni, David Rawlinson, The Editors
Katrina Forrester
Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis. Faber and Guardian Books, 346 pp., £12.99, June 2013, 978 0 571 30217 8
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘‘The Designated Mourner’ by Wally Shawn, Final Production, NYC, June 2013’
Michael Wood
Operation Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh, translated by Daniella Gitlin. Old Street, 230 pp., £9.99, August 2013, 978 1 908699 51 0
Neal Ascherson
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor. John Murray, 362 pp., £25, September 2013, 978 1 84854 752 0
Jackson Lears
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw. Allen Lane, 896 pp., £12.35, September 2013, 978 0 14 312407 8 Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch by Barbara Perry. Norton, 404 pp., £20, September 2013, 978 0 393 06895 5
Christian Lorentzen
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn. Simon and Schuster, 495 pp., £20, August 2013, 978 0 85720 893 4
Brian Rotman
The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick by Benoit Mandelbrot. Pantheon, 324 pp., £22.50, October 2012, 978 0 307 37735 7
Anthony Grafton
Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity by Daniel Stolzenberg. Chicago, 307 pp., £35, April 2013, 978 0 226 92414 4 Exploring the Kingdom of Saturn: Kircher’s Latium and Its Legacy by Harry Evans. Michigan, 236 pp., £63.50, July 2012, 978 0 472 11815 1
Dominic Dromgoole and Clive Stafford Smith
Short Cuts: Shakespeare in Guantánamo
Neal Ascherson
Shrapnel balls and green acorns
Joshua Cohen
The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen. Fourth Estate, 318 pp., £18.99, October 2013, 978 0 00 751743 5
Antony Lerman
Literature, Immigration and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act by David Glover. Cambridge, 229 pp., £55, November 2012, 978 1 107 02281 2
Mahmood Mamdani
The Logic of Nuremberg
Benjamin Markovits
Success
Lynn Visson
Diary: Simultaneous Interpreting
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