Vol. 32 No. 11 · 10 June 2010

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Jacqueline Rose

‘J’accuse’: Dreyfus in Our Times

Letters

Vernon Bogdanor, Brian Lee, Tony Sharpe, Duncan Bush, Augustus Richard Norton, Lotte Folke Kaarsholm, David Hall-Matthews, John Reynolds, Mike Bender, Chris Purnell

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius. Oxford, 811 pp., £25, February 2010, 978 0 19 929705 4

Ross McKibbin

Time to Repent

On the Coalition

Tariq Ali, Jenny Diski, Linda Colley, Mary Beard, David Edgar, Conor Gearty, John Gray, Colin Kidd, James Meek

Cathy Gere

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Macmillan, 368 pp., £18.99, June 2010, 978 0 230 74869 9

Mark Ford

Two Poems

Julian Bell

Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion by David Lewis-Williams. Thames and Hudson, 320 pp., £18.95, March 2010, 978 0 500 05164 1

Stephanie Burt

The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich. Heinemann, 260 pp., £11.99, July 2009, 978 0 434 01955 7
The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future by Craig Watkins. Beacon, 249 pp., £17.50, October 2009, 978 0 8070 6193 0
Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America by Julia Angwin. Random House, 371 pp., £17.50, March 2009, 978 1 4000 6694 0
The Tyranny of Email: The Four Thousand Year Journey to your Inbox by John Freeman. Scribner, 244 pp., £17.99, October 2009, 978 1 4165 7673 0
The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbours by Hal Niedzviecki. City Lights, 256 pp., £12, May 2009, 978 0 87286 499 3

Matthew Reynolds

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell. Sceptre, 469 pp., £18.99, May 2010, 978 0 340 92156 2

Andrew O’Hagan

Short Cuts: HBO

Simon Kuper

Spartak Moscow: A History of the People’s Team in the Workers’ State by Robert Edelman. Cornell, 346 pp., £21.95, January 2010, 978 0 8014 4742 6

Isabel Hilton

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. Granta, 314 pp., £14.99, February 2010, 978 1 84708 014 1

Charles Simic

Two Poems

Peter Campbell

On the Overground: Who would want to go to New Cross?

Corey Robin

American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by Joan Biskupic. Farrar, Straus, 434 pp., $28, November 2009, 978 0 374 20289 7

John Pemble

The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1820-32 by D.R. Fisher. Cambridge, 6336 pp., £490, December 2009, 978 0 521 19314 6

Keith Thomas

Diary: Working Methods

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