Contents
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David Bromwich
The Fastidious President: The Matter with Obama -
Letters
Vitor Alves, Grant Duncan, Constance Blackwell, Ben Bollig, Barbara Smoker, Malcolm Andrews, Albion Urdank, M. Smithurst, Roger Morsley-Smith, Louise Hirsch, Nicholas Faith, Geoffrey Taunton -
Julian Barnes
- Madame Bovary: Provincial Ways by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Lydia Davis
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Ross McKibbin
Nothing to do with the economy: The Cuts -
August Kleinzahler
Two Poems -
Blair Worden
- Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon by Nigel Smith
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Peter Campbell
On Radio 4: ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’ -
Bernard Porter
- GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency by Richard Aldrich
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Andrew O’Hagan
Short Cuts: The 1970s -
Gilberto Perez
- Hollywood Westerns and American Myth by Robert Pippin
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R.F. Langley
Poem: ‘To a Nightingale’ -
David Simpson
- None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture by Joshua Phillips
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Tim Lewens
- Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity and Policy by Sandra Mitchell
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Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘Strindberg in Skovlyst’ -
Greg Woolf
- Archimedes and the Roman Imagination by Mary Jaeger
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Tessa Hadley
- I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson, translated by Anne Born
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Adam Reiss
Diary: On a Dawn Raid