Vol. 34 No. 14 · 19 July 2012

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Cover Artist

Cressida Bell

Jeremy Harding

The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in US History by Chase Madar. OR, 167 pp., £10, April 2012, 978 1 935928 53 9

Letters

David A. Bell, Rufus MacKenzie, Helen Palmer, Raymond Tanter, Simon McTeer, George Kadar, Alan Hollinghurst, Bob Hall

Greg Grandin

Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War by Tanya Harmer. North Carolina, 375 pp., £38.95, October 2011, 978 0 8078 3495 4

John Pemble

Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W.T. Stead by W. Sydney Robinson. Robson, 281 pp., £20, May 2012, 978 1 84954 294 4

Perry Anderson

Why Partition?

W.G. Runciman

The Charity Mess

Simon Skinner

My Dear Hugh: Letters from Richard Cobb to Hugh Trevor-Roper and Others  Frances Lincoln, 240 pp., £20, October 2011, 978 0 7112 3240 2

Frederick Seidel

Poem: ‘Track Bike’

Michael Wood

Zona: A Book about a Film about a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer. Canongate, 228 pp., £16.99, February 2012, 978 0 85786 166 5

Christian Lorentzen

Short Cuts: Paul Krugman

Christopher Glazek

Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White. Bloomsbury, 390 pp., £18.99, January 2012, 978 1 4088 0579 4

Terry Eagleton

Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey. Harvill Secker, 245 pp., £16.99, June 2012, 978 1 84655 489 6

Andrew O’Hagan

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James. Arrow, 514 pp., £7.99, April 2012, 978 0 09 957993 9

Bee Wilson

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre. Bloomsbury, 417 pp., £16.99, March 2012, 978 1 4088 1990 6

Rosemary Hill

At the Ashmolean: The Capture of the Westmorland

Adam Shatz

Diary: Elections in Egypt

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