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Vol. 36 No. 20 · 23 October 2014
Michael Hofmann
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis. Cape, 310 pp., £18.99, August 2014, 978 0 224 09974 5
Letters
Anonymous, Vaughan Grylls, Anna Swan, Larissa Onyshkevych, Keith Gessen, William Horwood, Joseph McAleer, Andrew Sinclair, Hilary Rose, Marcia Almey, Anil Gomes, Michael Pountney, Charles Homsy, Irini Geroulanou, Mike Hall, Derek Schulz, Neil Corcoran, Valerie Hill
Michael Wood
Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov, edited and translated by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd. Penguin, 798 pp., £30, September 2014, 978 0 14 119223 9
Neal Ascherson, John Lanchester and Andrew O’Hagan
Karl Miller Remembered
Owen Hatherley
The Establishment and How They Get Away with It by Owen Jones. Allen Lane, 335 pp., £16.99, September 2014, 978 1 84614 719 7
Paul Kingsnorth
Don’t Even Think about It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall. Bloomsbury, 272 pp., £20, October 2014, 978 1 62040 133 0 This Changes Everything: Capitalism v. The Climate by Naomi Klein. Allen Lane, 576 pp., £20, September 2014, 978 1 84614 505 6
Tariq Ali
Le Journal and Le Club
Colm Tóibín
Lila by Marilynne Robinson. Virago, 261 pp., £16.99, October 2014, 978 1 84408 880 5
Francis FitzGibbon
Short Cuts: Human Rights à la Carte
Rosemary Hill
At the V&A: Constable
Gary Indiana
Limonov: A Novel by Emmanuel Carrère, translated by John Lambert. Allen Lane, 340 pp., £20, October 2014, 978 1 84614 820 0
Lara Feigel
The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s by Werner Sollors. Harvard, 390 pp., £25.95, April 2014, 978 0 674 05243 7
Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘Beside Loch Iffrin’
Terry Eagleton
Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by Alexander Larman. Head of Zeus, 387 pp., £25, July 2014, 978 1 78185 109 8
Adam Shatz
Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck. Fourth Estate, 656 pp., £25, March 2014, 978 0 00 756290 9
Malise Ruthven
Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood by Justin Marozzi. Allen Lane, 458 pp., £25, May 2014, 978 1 84614 313 7
Mark Mazower
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher. Chatto, 326 pp., £18.99, May 2014, 978 0 7011 8793 4
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Gone Girl’
Paul Farmer
Diary: Ebola
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