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Vol. 27 No. 21 · 3 November 2005
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero by Catriona Kelly. Granta, 352 pp., £17.99, May 2005, 1 86207 747 9
Letters
Jasper Tomlinson, Klaus Dodds, Jim Lederman, Eric Hobsbawm, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Giancarlo de Vivo, Penelope Crick, John Christensen
Adam Phillips
My Lives by Edmund White. Bloomsbury, 356 pp., £17.99, September 2005, 0 7475 7522 3
John Kinsella
Poem: ‘Intermitting’
James Davidson
Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins. Chicago, 334 pp., £21, December 2004, 0 226 73400 5
Sara Roy
‘A Dubai on the Mediterranean’
Virginia Tilley
Quisling and Occupier
David Garrioch
The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall. California, 341 pp., £35.95, April 2005, 0 520 24180 0
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: ‘The Constant Gardener’
Lorraine Daston
Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology by Katharine Anderson. Chicago, 331 pp., £31.50, July 2005, 0 226 01968 3
D. Graham Burnett
Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection by Mark Monmonier. Chicago, 242 pp., £17.50, November 2004, 0 226 53431 6
Richard Hamblyn
Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea by Helen Rozwadowski. Harvard, 276 pp., £16.95, April 2005, 0 674 01691 2
Catherine Gallagher
Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture 1748-1818 by Ruth Perry. Cambridge, 466 pp., £50, August 2004, 0 521 83694 8
Hal Foster
At the Guggenheim: Russian Art
Gillian Bennett
The Woman who Pretended to Be who She Was: Myths of Self-Impersonation by Wendy Doniger. Oxford, 272 pp., £17.99, January 2005, 0 19 516016 9
Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘Untitled (51)’
Fatema Ahmed
Wodehouse by Joseph Connolly. Haus, 192 pp., £9.99, September 2004, 1 904341 68 3 Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum. Penguin, 542 pp., £8.99, September 2005, 0 14 100048 1
Daniel Soar
First Verse by Barry McCrea. Carroll and Graf, 355 pp., £14.95, June 2005, 0 7867 1513 8
Thomas de Waal
Diary: War in the North Caucasus
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