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Vol. 36 No. 15 · 31 July 2014
Jenny Diski
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval. Doubleday, 288 pp., £20, June 2014, 978 0 385 53657 8
Letters
Andrew Hammel, Michael Robertson, Tom Frewen, Pierre de Vos, Stan Smith, Robert Tombs, William Flesch, Damian Grant, Ian Britain, Anthony O’Donnell, Mark Martin, E.T.C. Dee, Jeff Smith, Clancy Sigal
Daniel Trilling
Short Cuts: At the Selmentsi Crossing
Mouin Rabbani
Israel mows the lawn
Anthony Grafton
Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs by Paul Koudounaris. Thames and Hudson, 189 pp., £18.95, September 2013, 978 0 500 25195 9
Jeremy Bernstein
Swoo
Jeremy Harding
Mammon’s Kingdom: An Essay on Britain, Now by David Marquand. Allen Lane, 288 pp., £20, May 2014, 978 1 84614 672 5
Christopher Beha
In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen. Oneworld, 246 pp., £12.99, April 2014, 978 1 78074 555 8
Thomas Powers
A Conversation with Gore Vidal
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Byrd by Kerry McCarthy. Oxford, 282 pp., £25, August 2013, 978 0 19 538875 6
Adam Shatz
A Sentimental Novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated by D.E. Brooke. Dalkey Archive, 142 pp., £9.50, April 2014, 978 1 62897 006 7
Hal Foster
At the Whitney: Jeff Koons
Marina Warner
The Erotic Doll: A Modern Fetish by Marquard Smith. Yale, 376 pp., £35, January 2014, 978 0 300 15202 9
Kirsty Gunn
Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips. Cape, 445 pp., £18.99, April 2014, 978 0 224 09935 6
Colin Burrow
The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick edited by Tom Cain and Ruth Connolly. Oxford, 504 pp. and 803 pp., £125, October 2013, 978 0 19 921284 2
Christopher Tayler
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut. Atlantic, 357 pp., £17.99, May 2014, 978 0 85789 718 3
Robert VanderMolen
Poem: ‘A Bear’
David Craig
The Moor: Lives, Landscape, Literature by William Atkins. Faber, 371 pp., £18.99, May 2014, 978 0 571 29004 8
Bernard Porter
The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania by Tom Lawson. Tauris, 263 pp., £25, January 2014, 978 1 78076 626 3
Mike Kirby
Diary: Discharged
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