Contents
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Anne Barton
- England’s Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy by Michael Dobson and Nicola J. Watson
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Letters
Marjorie Enders, David Craig, Sarah Hutton, S. Daniel, Lorna Scott Fox, Garth Eaglesfield, Laura Spira, Roger Lancaster, Stanley Plotkin, Edward Hooper, Jan van Luxemburg, George Kramer, Marc Hudson, Rachel Foxley -
James Davidson
- From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire by Pierre Briant, translated by Peter Daniels
- Ancient Persia from 550 BC to 650 AD: reissue by Josef Wiesehöfer, translated by Azizeh Azodi
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David Runciman
Politicians in a Fix: The uses of referendums -
Sarah Maguire
Two Poems -
Alan Bennett
‘Two in Torquay’: a short play -
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: mobile phones -
John Upton
Feasting on Power: David Blunkett’s Criminal Justice Bill -
Andy Beckett
- Panorama: Fifty Years of Pride And Paranoia by Richard Lindley
- The Harder Path: The Autobiography by John Birt
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Amit Chaudhuri
Poem: ‘How do you fight this monster?’ -
Art Spiegelman
‘In the Shadow of No Towers’, episode 8: the comic continues -
Blair Worden
Which play was performed at the Globe Theatre on 7 February 1601?: A Play for Plotters -
Simon Walker
- Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV by Jonathan Hughes
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Nicholas Penny
- Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting by Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre et al
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Valerie Curtis and Alison Jolly
Sick as a Parrot: animal self-medication- Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Well and What We Can Learn from Them by Cindy Engel
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Daniel Soar
- Erasure by Percival Everett
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Barry Schwabsky
At Tate Britain: Bridget Riley -
George O’Brien
- The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
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John Lanchester
Unbelievable Blair: falling out with New Labour