Vol. 36 No. 6 · 20 March 2014

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Cover Artist

Anne Rothenstein

James Meek

Putin’s Counter-Revolution

Letters

Tom Dale, Hazem Kandil, Charles Rzepka, Christian Nicholson, Rebecca Solnit, Roger Osborne, Tony Judge, David Craig, David Moody, Andrew Hanson, David Elstein, David Martin, Mat Snow, Luke Harding, David Ganz

Mary Beard

The Public Voice of Women

Colm Tóibín

A Personal Memoir: Fragments for an Autobiography by Antoni Tàpies, translated by Josep Miquel Sobrer. Indiana, 429 pp., £26.99, February 2010, 978 0 253 35489 1
Complete Writings Volume II: Collected Essays by Antoni Tàpies, translated by Josep Miquel Sobrer. Indiana, 744 pp., £26.99, November 2011, 978 0 253 35503 4

David Runciman

Branson: Behind the Mask by Tom Bower. Faber, 368 pp., £20, February 2014, 978 0 571 29710 8

Christian Lorentzen

Short Cuts: Not a Little Kafkaesque

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Practising Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars and the Persistence of Tradition by J. Arch Getty. Yale, 359 pp., £30, September 2013, 978 0 300 16929 4

Michael Kulikowski

Class in Archaic Greece by Peter Rose. Cambridge, 439 pp., £70, December 2012, 978 0 521 76876 4

Jane Humphries

Liberty’s Dawn: A People’s History of the Industrial Revolution by Emma Griffin. Yale, 303 pp., £12.99, March 2014, 978 0 300 20525 1

Bee Wilson

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery, with Isabel Oakeshott. Bloomsbury, 426 pp., £12.99, January 2014, 978 1 4088 4644 5
Planet Carnivore by Alex Renton. Guardian, 78 pp., £1.99, August 2013

Hal Foster

At the Guggenheim: Italian Futurism

Will Frears

Miami Blues by Charles Willeford. Penguin, 246 pp., £8.99, August 2012, 978 0 14 119901 6

Martin Riker

Blinding: Volume I by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter. Archipelago, 464 pp., £15.99, October 2013, 978 1 935744 84 9

László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes

Story: ‘There Goes Valzer’

Adam Mars-Jones

Diary: Not the Marrying Kind

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