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Vol. 36 No. 8 · 17 April 2014
Christian Wolmar
What’s the point of HS2?
Letters
Malcolm Bull, Laura Janes, Geoff Roberts, Lawrence Rosen, Thomas Meaney, Emily Mitchell, Edward Luttwak, Daniel Davies, Brian Dillon, Basem Ra’ad, Adrienne Ghaly
Pamela Crossley
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang. Cape, 436 pp., £20, September 2013, 978 0 224 08743 8
Ian Penman
Sonic Foam
Colin Kidd
A British Bundesrat?
Adam Mars-Jones
Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis. Hamish Hamilton, 304 pp., £16.99, April 2014, 978 0 241 14664 4
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘Morning and Melancholia’
Eleanor Birne
At Kettle’s Yard: Ben and Winifred Nicholson
Marina Warner
Je parle toutes les langues, mais en arabe by Abdelfattah Kilito. Actes Sud, 144 pp., €19, March 2013, 978 2 330 01634 0
Seymour M. Hersh
The Red Line and the Rat Line
David Motadel
Short Cuts: The Crimean Tatars
Philippe Marlière
Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity by Philip Short. Bodley Head, 692 pp., £30, November 2013, 978 1 84792 006 5
Nicholas Phillips
Closed Material
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Thomas Keymer
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch. Yale, 573 pp., £25, November 2013, 978 0 300 16499 2 Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: ‘Polite Conversation’, ‘Directions to Servants’ and Other Works by Jonathan Swift, edited by Valerie Rumbold. Cambridge, 821 pp., £85, July 2013, 978 0 521 84326 3 Journal to Stella: Letters to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley, 1710-13 by Jonathan Swift, edited by Abigail Williams. Cambridge, 800 pp., £85, December 2013, 978 0 521 84166 5
Steve Ely
Poem: ‘Prayers in Time of Great Hunger’
Christopher Hilliard
Richard Hoggart: Virtue and Reward by Fred Inglis. Polity, 259 pp., £25, October 2013, 978 0 7456 5171 2
Keith Gessen
Diary: In Odessa
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