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Vol. 37 No. 9 · 7 May 2015
Neal Ascherson
The Promised Land by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Michael Hofmann. Vintage, 423 pp., £16.99, February 2015, 978 0 09 957708 9
Letters
John Gillingham, Scott Herrick, Keith Bilton, Jonathan Elphick, Jane Symonds, Margaret McCartney, Paul Taylor, Pedro Solares, Matthew Young
Jenny Turner
Barely under Control
Dawn Foster
Free Schools
Hilary Mantel
Story: ‘The School of English’
Barbara Newman
Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation by Robert Bartlett. Princeton, 787 pp., £27.95, December 2013, 978 0 691 15913 3
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘Down below Riverside Park’
Peter Green
Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE by Matt Waters. Cambridge, 252 pp., £19.99, January 2014, 978 0 521 25369 7
Owen Hatherley
Nye: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds. I.B. Tauris, 316 pp., £25, October 2014, 978 1 78076 209 8
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Hitler’s Last Day
Ben Jackson
Honourable Friends? Parliament and the Fight for Change by Caroline Lucas. Portobello, 281 pp., £14.99, March 2015, 978 1 84627 593 7
Jeremy Harding
At the RA: Richard Diebenkorn
Jenny Diski
In Gratitude
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Force Majeure’, ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’
Peter Howarth
Robert Graves: Selected Poems edited by Michael Longley. Faber, 136 pp., £15.99, August 2013, 978 0 571 28383 5
David Runciman
Notes on the Election
Stephen Walsh
Words without Music: A Memoir by Philip Glass. Faber, 416 pp., £22.50, April 2015, 978 0 571 32372 2
Hugo Williams
Poem: ‘After Midnight’
Suzy Hansen
Diary: In Istanbul
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