Vol. 26 No. 13 · 8 July 2004

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Peter Campbell

James Meek

The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia out in the Cold by Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy. Brookings, 303 pp., £13.50, December 2003, 0 8157 3645 2

Letters

Andy Beckett, Kenneth Choy, A.J. Caston, Campbell Lennie, Yitzhak Laor, Rick Livingston, Ruth Franklin, Ian Carter, Graham Hall

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John Gittings

One China, Many Paths edited by Wang Chaohua. Verso, 368 pp., £20, November 2003, 1 85984 537 1

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The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew. Chatto, 179 pp., £10.99, May 2004, 0 7011 7605 9

Peter Campbell

At Tate Britain: gardens

Jacqueline Rose

In Our Present-Day White Christian Culture

Robin Robertson

Two Poems

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How to dislodge a leader who doesn’t want to go

R.W. Johnson

Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience by Susan Pedersen. Yale, 469 pp., £25, March 2004, 0 300 10245 3

Andrew O’Hagan

Short Cuts: myths of Marilyn

Paul Laity

Germany Calling: A Personal Biography of William Joyce, ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ by Mary Kenny. New Island, 300 pp., £17.99, November 2003, 1 902602 78 1
Lord Haw-Haw: The English Voice of Nazi Germany by Peter Martland. National Archives, 309 pp., £19.99, March 2003, 1 903365 17 1

Liz Jobey

Bill Brandt: A Life by Paul Delany. Cape, 336 pp., £35, March 2004, 0 224 05280 2
Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective  Victoria & Albert Museum

Hugh Pennington

Why can’t doctors be more scientific?

John Hartley Williams

Poem: ‘Dan Dare at the Cosmos Ballroom’

Rebecca Solnit

Dante's Inferno by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders. Chronicle, 218 pp., £15.99, May 2004, 0 8118 4213 4

Ian Sansom

Diary: I was a teenage evangelist

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