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Vol. 31 No. 2 · 29 January 2009
Henry Siegman
Israel’s Lies
Letters
Clifton Hawkins, Tom Nagel, Michael Holroyd, Tom Stoppard, Patrick Marmion, Chris Horner, Keith Flett, Keith Gessen, Lynn McDonald, Clancy Sigal, Tom Chatfield, Nicholas Pole
Responses to the War in Gaza
Tariq Ali, David Bromwich, Alastair Crooke, Conor Gearty, Eric Hobsbawm, R.W. Johnson, Rashid Khalidi, Yitzhak Laor, John Mearsheimer, Yonatan Mendel, Ilan Pappe, Gabriel Piterberg, Jacqueline Rose, Eliot Weinberger, Michael Wood
David Runciman
Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens by Josiah Ober. Princeton, 342 pp., £17.95, November 2008, 978 0 691 13347 8
Glen Newey
Death by a Thousand Cuts by Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon and Gregory Blue. Harvard, 320 pp., £22.95, March 2008, 978 0 674 02773 2 Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris. Picador, 286 pp., £8.99, January 2009, 978 0 330 45201 4 Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law by Philippe Sands. Allen Lane, 315 pp., £20, May 2008, 978 1 84614 008 2
Colm Tóibín
Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham. Verso, 565 pp., £24.99, October 2008, 978 1 84467 295 0
Simon Blackburn
Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-51 edited by Brian McGuinness. Blackwell, 498 pp., £75, March 2008, 978 1 4051 4701 9
Thomas Jones
Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele by Bengt Jangfeldt, translated by Harry Watson. Tauris, 381 pp., £25, March 2008, 978 1 84511 720 7
John Lanchester
Short Cuts: the demise of Woolworths
Christopher Tayler
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton. Constable, 327 pp., £7.99, September 2008, 978 1 84529 415 1 The Gorse Trilogy by Patrick Hamilton. Black Spring, 603 pp., £9.95, June 2007, 978 0 948238 34 5
Peter Campbell
At the Natural History Museum: Darwin as Deity
Michael Newton
Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by Cheeta. Fourth Estate, 320 pp., £16.99, October 2008, 978 0 00 727863 3
Eamon Duffy
Flesh Made Word: Saints’ Stories and the Western Imagination by Aviad Kleinberg, translated by Jane Marie Todd. Harvard, 340 pp., £19.95, May 2008, 978 0 674 02647 6
David Harsent
Poem: ‘The Garden Goddess’
Paul Myerscough
Diary: Confessions of a Poker Player
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