Vol. 36 No. 21 · 6 November 2014

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Anne Rothenstein

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Vol. 36 No. 21 · 6 November 2014

Letters

David Campbell, Colin Duncan, Christopher Goulding, David Elstein, Mark Collins, Tony Gee, F.E.A.W., Mary-Kay Wilmers, David Ganz, Harry Stopes, Charles Coutinho, Fabian Acker, Rod Edmond, Valentin Lyubarsky, Henry Hardy, Frances Stonor Saunders, Alan Bullion

James Salter

The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War by Samuel Hynes. Farrar, Straus, 322 pp., £17.99, November 2014, 978 0 374 27800 7

Patrick Cockburn

Whose side is Turkey on?

Juliet Mitchell

Love and Hate, Girl and Boy

Frederick Wilmot-Smith

Necessity or Ideology?

Helen Vendler

Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love by James Booth. Bloomsbury, 532 pp., £25, August 2014, 978 1 4088 5166 1

David Runciman

Short Cuts: Narcissistic Kevins

Jenny Diski

Schrödinger’s Tumour

John-Paul Stonard

At the RA: Anselm Kiefer

Peter Green

Pericles of Athens by Vincent Azoulay, translated by Janet Lloyd. Princeton, 291 pp., £24.95, July 2014, 978 0 691 15459 6

Colin Burrow

Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by James Turner. Princeton, 550 pp., £24.95, June 2014, 978 0 691 14564 8

Adam Mars-Jones

I Refuse by Per Petterson, translated by Don Bartlett. Harvill Secker, 282 pp., £16.99, October 2014, 978 1 84655 781 1

Miranda Critchley

White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin by Michael Clune. Hazelden, 261 pp., £11.50, April 2013, 978 1 61649 208 3

Tom Shippey

Pagan Britain by Ronald Hutton. Yale, 480 pp., £25, November 2013, 978 0 300 19771 6
The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria by Max Adams. Head of Zeus, 450 pp., £25, August 2013, 978 1 78185 418 1

Anne Wagner

At Tate Modern: Richard Tuttle

Iain Sinclair

Diary: London’s Lost Cinemas

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