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Contents

Vol. 29 No. 2   ·   25 January 2007

Russia’s Managed Democracy

Perry Anderson: Why Putin?

Letters

Sue Rabbitt Roff, Sam Abrams, John Lovering, Lammert de Jong, Richard Tugwell, Rupert Haigh, Eugene Goodheart, Raymond Clayton, Chris Harman, Jeremy Harding, Rachel Ware, Thomas Jones

Belgravia Cockney

Christopher Tayler on being a le Carré bore

  • The Mission Song by John le Carré

Philip Connors on Cormac McCarthy

  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy

At the Movies

Michael Wood goes to see Babel

  • Babel directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (2006)

Dream Leaps

Tessa Hadley on Alice Munro

Alison Light: Window-Smashing Suffragettes

Short Cuts

John Lanchester: The Rise and Rise of Spam

Susan Pedersen: Loving Lloyd George

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Peter Gizzi

Denis Donoghue on T.S. Eliot

Stephen Mulhall on John Hyman’s objective eye

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Charles Tripp: Iraq’s Shadow State

Peter Campbell: Mapping London

Iran and the Bomb

Norman Dombey: Don’t Do It

Rubén Gallo: Mexico’s Shadow Presidency

Contributors

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Russia’s Managed Democracy
Perry Anderson: Why Putin?

Belgravia Cockney
Christopher Tayler on being a le Carré bore

Iran and the Bomb
Norman Dombey: Don’t Do It

Dream Leaps
Tessa Hadley on Alice Munro

At the Movies
Michael Wood goes to see Babel

Short Cuts
John Lanchester: The Rise and Rise of Spam