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Vol. 37 No. 13 · 2 July 2015
Geoffrey Hawthorn
Essays and Reviews 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams. Princeton, 435 pp., £24.95, January 2014, 978 0 691 15985 0
Letters
Eric Fripp, Kristin Surak, Edward Luttwak, Nick Howard, Tim Salmon, Fraser Pettigrew, Galen Strawson, Will Chapman, Milton Moskowitz, James Fanning, David Attwell, Thomas Meaney, Mark Goodwin, Tony Pipolo
Patrick Cockburn
Why join Islamic State?
August Kleinzahler
The Dream Songs by John Berryman. Farrar, Straus, 427 pp., £11.99, October 2014, 978 0 374 53455 4 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman. Farrar, Straus, 84 pp., £10, October 2014, 978 0 374 53452 3 Berryman’s Sonnets by John Berryman. Farrar, Straus, 127 pp., £10, October 2014, 978 0 374 53454 7 The Heart Is Strange by John Berryman. Farrar, Straus, 179 pp., £17.50, October 2014, 978 0 374 22108 9 Poets in their Youth by Eileen Simpson. Farrar, Straus, 274 pp., £11.50, October 2014, 978 0 374 23559 8
Jenny Diski
Spray it silver
Dan Hancox
Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory since 1936 by Jeremy Treglown. Vintage, 336 pp., £16.99, March 2015, 978 1 78470 115 4
Chase Madar
Short Cuts: Human Rights Window Dressing
Andrew O’Hagan
By the Gasometers
Michael Hofmann
The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher. Faber, 115 pp., £14.99, June 2015, 978 0 571 31646 5
Philippe Marlière
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871 by John Merriman. Yale, 324 pp., £20, October 2014, 978 0 300 17452 6 Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross. Verso, 148 pp., £16.99, March 2015, 978 1 78168 839 7
Tom Shippey
‘Why Is Your Axe Bloody?’: A Reading of ‘Njal’s Saga’ by William Ian Miller. Oxford, 334 pp., £55, July 2014, 978 0 19 870484 3
Adrienne Mayor
The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by Armand Marie Leroi. Bloomsbury, 501 pp., £25, August 2014, 978 1 4088 3620 0
Chris Andrews
Poem: ‘Honey Encryption’
Ian Penman
Sinatra: London Universal, 3 CDs and 1 DVD, £40, November 2014
Patrick McGuinness
On Rosemary Tonks
Thomas Jones
Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri. Oneworld, 243 pp., £12.99, February 2015, 978 1 78074 621 0
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Long Good Friday’
Scott Ritter
‘We ain’t found shit’
Rosemary Hill
At Waterloo: The Château-Ferme de Hougoumont
Anna Neistat
Diary: Massacre in Andijan
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