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Vol. 30 No. 23 · 4 December 2008
Neal Ascherson
A Chance to Join the World
Letters
Lyn Julius, Adam Shatz, Shankar Gopalakrishnan, Chester Aaron, Patrick Renshaw, Solomon Hughes, David Gordon, Anders Stephanson, Clancy Sigal, Raymond Clayton, Alex Callinicos, Anthony Harding, Tony Colman
Donald MacKenzie
An Address in Mayfair
John Burnside
Two Poems
Adam Phillips
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh. Bloomsbury, 366 pp., £20, September 2008, 978 0 7475 9185 6
Robert Vitalis
The Bin Ladens: The Story of a Family and Its Fortune by Steve Coll. Allen Lane, 671 pp., £25, April 2008, 978 1 84614 124 9
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘Hollyhocks in the Fog’
Mahmood Mamdani
Lessons of Zimbabwe
Ruth Padel
Poem: ‘The Sea Will Do Us All Good’
Michael Neill
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works edited by Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino. Oxford, 2016 pp., £85, November 2007, 978 0 19 818569 7 Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works edited by Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino. Oxford, 1183 pp., £100, November 2007, 978 0 19 818570 3
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Malcolm Gladwell
Elizabeth Lowry
Apology for the Woman Writing by Jenny Diski. Virago, 282 pp., £16.99, November 2008, 978 1 84408 385 5
Sarah Howe
In Zodiac Light by Robert Edric. Doubleday, 368 pp., £16.99, July 2008, 978 0 385 61258 6
Michael Wood
Histoire(s) du cinéma directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
Hugh Pennington
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge. Viking, 646 pp., £25, October 2008, 978 0 670 87411 8
Inga Clendinnen
Van Diemen’s Land: A History by James Boyce. Black, 388 pp., £20.75, February 2008, 978 1 86395 413 6
Tim Parks
Gomorrah: Italy’s Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano, translated by Virginia Jewiss. Pan, 424 pp., £8.99, October 2008, 978 0 330 45099 7 Gomorrah directed by Matteo Garrone.October 2008
Mark Whittow
At the Royal Academy: Byzantium
Paul Mitchinson
Janáček: Years of a Life, Volume I by John Tyrrell. Faber, 971 pp., £60, November 2006, 0 571 17538 4 Janáček: Years of a Life, Volume II by John Tyrrell. Faber, 1074 pp., £60, November 2007, 978 0 571 23667 1
Leah Price
Diary: The Death of Stenography
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