Vol. 33 No. 17 · 8 September 2011

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Vol. 33 No. 17 · 8 September 2011

John Lanchester

The Non-Scenic Route to the Place We’re Going Anyway

Letters

Eric Strong, Martin Davies, Stephen Longstaffe, Peter Cave, Lindsay Jacobs, Jonathan Kaplan, James Finlay, Kristin Surak, John Woodley, Chris Cossey, Maurizio Serra, Michael Howard

Ferdinand Mount

Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan by D.R. Thorpe. Pimlico, 887 pp., £16.99, September 2011, 978 1 84413 541 7
The Macmillan Diaries Vol. II: Prime Minister and After 1957-66 edited by Peter Catterall. Macmillan, 758 pp., £40, May 2011, 978 1 4050 4721 0

Peter Campbell

At the Courtauld: Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril

Richard J. Evans

The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw. Allen Lane, 564 pp., £30, August 2011, 978 0 7139 9716 3

Frederick Seidel

Poem: ‘Egypt Angel’

Michael Hofmann

Poems by Elizabeth Bishop. Chatto, 352 pp., £14.99, February 2011, 978 0 7011 8628 9

Hal Foster

The Last Column

Mary Anne Weaver

The Indecisive Terrorist

Conor Gearty

Short Cuts: Counterterrorism

John Barrell

The Letters of William Godwin Vol. I: 1778-97 by Pamela Clemit. Oxford, 306 pp., £100, February 2011, 978 0 19 956261 9

Amanda Vickery

Women in 18th-Century Europe by Margaret Hunt. Longman, 484 pp., £21.99, October 2009, 978 0 582 30865 7

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Project Nim’, ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’

J.G.A. Pocock

Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921 by Judith Binney. Bridget Williams, 670 pp., £50, May 2009, 978 1 877242 44 1
Stories without End: Essays, 1975-2010 by Judith Binney. Bridget Williams, 424 pp., £30, May 2010, 978 1 877242 47 2

Slavoj Žižek

The Riots

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘Employment’

Chase Madar

The Anatomy of a Moment by Javier Cercas, translated by Anne McLean. Bloomsbury, 403 pp., £18.99, February 2011, 978 1 4088 0560 2

Lidija Haas

The House in France: A Memoir by Gully Wells. Bloomsbury, 307 pp., £16.99, June 2011, 978 1 4088 0809 2

Robin Robertson

Poem: ‘Wire’

Mary Ann Caws

Ondine et Paradis

James Lasdun

Diary: Police procedurals

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