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Vol. 37 No. 5 · 5 March 2015
John Lanchester
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. Norton, 306 pp., £17.99, January 2014, 978 0 393 23935 5 Average Is Over: Powering America beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen. Plume, 290 pp., £12.99, September 2014, 978 0 14 218111 9
Letters
Tom McBride, Richard Tagart, David Minns, Gerald O’Callaghan, Sandra Spears, Edward Luttwak, Rosemary Hill, Isobel Grundy, Benjamin Letzler, Duncan Hunter, Richard Henry Holland, Marilyn Hacker, Paul McHale
Daniel Trilling
Short Cuts: At the Amygdaleza Prison Camp
Jenny Diski
Why didn’t you just do what you were told?
Adam Phillips
Against Self-Criticism
Adam Mars-Jones
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Faber, 345 pp., £20, March 2015, 978 0 571 31503 1
Michael Wood
Time, History and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach by Erich Auerbach, edited by James Porter, translated by Jane Newman. Princeton, 284 pp., £27.95, December 2013, 978 0 691 13711 7
Gavin Francis
Cash for Diagnoses
Isabel Hilton
My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone by Naktsang Nulo, translated by Angus Cargill and Sonam Lhamo. Duke, 286 pp., £17.99, November 2014, 978 0 8223 5726 1
Andrew McGettigan
Cash Today
David Runciman
Notes on the Election
Julian Bell
At the RA: Rubens and His Legacy
David Parrott
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the 17th Century by Geoffrey Parker. Yale, 871 pp., £16.99, August 2014, 978 0 300 20863 4
David Craig
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden. Granta, 348 pp., £20, October 2014, 978 1 84708 628 0
Helen Graham
Franco: A Personal and Political Biography by Stanley Payne and Jesús Palacios. Wisconsin, 632 pp., £27.95, November 2014, 978 0 299 30210 8
Michael Wood
At the Movies: Katharine Hepburn
David Trotter
The Yellow Peril: Dr Fu Manchu & the Rise of Chinaphobia by Christopher Frayling. Thames and Hudson, 360 pp., £24.95, October 2014, 978 0 500 25207 9
Steve Ely
Poem: ‘Werwolf’
Will Self
Diary: My Typewriters
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