Vol. 29 No. 19 · 4 October 2007

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Vol. 29 No. 19 · 4 October 2007

Letters

Neil Forster, Rory MacQueen, Barbara Graziosi, Flora Jeunet, Gordon Peilow, Martin Sanderson

Michael Wood

Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee. Harvill, 231 pp., £16.99, September 2007, 978 1 84655 120 8
Inner Workings: Essays 2000-2005 by J.M. Coetzee. Harvill, 304 pp., £17.99, March 2007, 978 1 84655 045 4

Julian Barnes

Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon, translated by Luc Sante. NYRB, 171 pp., £7.99, August 2007, 978 1 59017 230 8

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘Nearing Dawn’

Tariq Ali

Pakistan at Sixty

Ross McKibbin

Pure New Labour

Nicholas Guyatt

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis. Oxford, 440 pp., £17.99, May 2006, 0 19 514073 7
The Trader, the Owner, the Slave by James Walvin. Cape, 297 pp., £17.99, March 2007, 978 0 224 06144 5
The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 by Colin Kidd. Cambridge, 309 pp., £16.99, September 2006, 0 521 79324 6
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese. Cambridge, 828 pp., £18.99, December 2005, 0 521 85065 7

Andrew O’Hagan

Short Cuts: Telecom Rehab

John Banville

Exit Ghost by Philip Roth. Cape, 292 pp., £16.99, October 2007, 978 0 224 08173 3

Amit Chaudhuri

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Hamish Hamilton, 184 pp., £14.99, March 2007, 978 0 241 14365 0

Susan Eilenberg

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. Murray, 223 pp., £12.99, June 2007, 978 0 7195 6456 7

James Shapiro

Shakespeare’s Wife by Germaine Greer. Bloomsbury, 406 pp., £20, September 2007, 978 0 7475 9019 4

Wayne Koestenbaum

Tennessee Williams: Notebooks edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton. Yale, 828 pp., £27.50, February 2007, 978 0 300 11682 3

Peter Campbell

At Victoria Miro: Sarah Sze’s Art of Arrangement

Adam Phillips

After Strachey

Anne Enright

Diary: Disliking the McCanns

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