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Vol. 35 No. 24 · 19 December 2013
Jenny Turner
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee. Chatto, 508 pp., £25, November 2013, 978 0 7011 8495 7
Letters
Nicholas Humphrey, R.W. Johnson, Mahmood Mamdani, Richard J. Evans, Jim Maloney, Caroline Pinder Cracraft , Chris Sansom, Peter Betts, Andrew Lewis, Bob West, Paul Readman, Mary Bergan, Nicholas Stephenson
Seymour M. Hersh
Whose sarin?
James Wood
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the 20th Century by Paul Kildea. Allen Lane, 635 pp., £30, January 2013, 978 1 84614 232 1 Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music by Neil Powell. Hutchinson, 512 pp., £25, January 2013, 978 0 09 193123 0
Susan Pedersen
Shirley Williams: The Biography by Mark Peel. Biteback, 461 pp., £25, September 2013, 978 1 84954 604 1
Owen Bennett-Jones
Decoding al-Qaida’s Strategy: The Deep Battle against America by Michael Ryan. Columbia, 368 pp., £23.15, September 2013, 978 0 231 16384 2 The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organisations by Jacob Shapiro. Princeton, 352 pp., £19.95, July 2013, 978 0 691 15721 4
Francis FitzGibbon
Short Cuts: The Lobbying Bill
Christopher Tayler
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Little, Brown, 771 pp., £20, October 2013, 978 1 4087 0494 3
John-Paul Stonard
At the Guggenheim: Christopher Wool
J. Hoberman
Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-39 by Thomas Doherty. Columbia, 429 pp., £24, April 2013, 978 0 231 16392 7 The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler by Ben Urwand. Harvard, 327 pp., £19.95, August 2013, 978 0 674 72474 7
David Harsent
Poem: ‘Fire: a song for Mistress Askew’
Anne Enright
At Turner Contemporary: Dorothy Cross, Connemara
Marina Warner
Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Allen Lane, 337 pp., £20, April 2013, 978 1 84614 426 4
Rosemary Hill
Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties by Rachel Cooke. Virago, 368 pp., £18.99, October 2013, 978 1 84408 740 2
Colin Burrow
Solo: A James Bond Novel by William Boyd. Cape, 322 pp., £18.99, September 2013, 978 0 224 09747 5
Susan McKay
Diary: Jean McConville
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