Vol. 35 No. 20 · 24 October 2013

Browse other issues from this year

Cover Artist

Naomi Frears

Browse other issues from this year

Vol. 35 No. 20 · 24 October 2013

Stefan Collini

Everything for Sale? The Marketisation of UK Higher Education by Roger Brown and Helen Carasso. Routledge, 235 pp., £26.99, February 2013, 978 0 415 80980 1
The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education by Andrew McGettigan. Pluto, 215 pp., £16.99, April 2013, 978 0 7453 3293 2

Letters

Derek Collett, Rick Livingston, Christopher Eddy, Christopher Prendergast, Martin Westlake, John Dickie, Jeremy Smithson, Jeremy Bernstein, David Craig, Daniel Davies

Laura Jacobs

My Life: The Restored Edition by Isadora Duncan. Norton, 322 pp., £12.99, June 2013, 978 0 87140 318 6

Daniel Soar

How to Get Ahead at the NSA

Jacqueline Rose

Short Cuts: My Evening with Farage

Colin Burrow

Dante: The Divine Comedy translated by Clive James. Picador, 526 pp., £25, July 2013, 978 1 4472 4219 2

Jonathan Coe

Plays and Teleplays by Flann O’Brien, edited by Daniel Keith Jernigan. Dalkey, 434 pp., £9.50, September 2013, 978 1 56478 890 0
The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien edited by Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper. Dalkey, 158 pp., £9.50, August 2013, 978 1 56478 889 4

Benjamin Kunkel

Subtle Bodies by Norman Rush. Granta, 234 pp., £14.99, October 2013, 978 1 84708 780 5

Christopher Tayler

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri. Bloomsbury, 340 pp., £16.99, September 2013, 978 1 4088 2811 3

Robert Baird

Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus by Lisa Jarnot. California, 509 pp., £27.95, August 2013, 978 0 520 23416 1

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Blue Jasmine’

Anne Wagner

At Tate Modern: Mira Schendel

Jonathan Steele

Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia by Philip Shishkin. Yale, 316 pp., £20, June 2013, 978 0 300 18436 5
The Chinese Question in Central Asia: Domestic Order, Social Change and the Chinese Factor by Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse. Hurst, 271 pp., £40, October 2012, 978 1 84904 179 9

Nick Richardson

Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir by Amanda Knox. Harper, 463 pp., £28.99, April 2013, 978 0 06 221720 2
Meredith: Our Daughter’s Murder and the Heartbreaking Quest for the Truth by John Kercher. Hodder, 291 pp., £8.99, April 2013, 978 1 4447 4278 7

Tristram Stuart

Diary: Beekeeping

Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.

Sign up to our newsletter

For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.

Newsletter Preferences