Vol. 35 No. 16 · 29 August 2013

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Vol. 35 No. 16 · 29 August 2013

Christopher Clark

The War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan. Profile, 656 pp., £25, October 2013, 978 1 84668 272 8
July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin. Icon, 461 pp., £25, July 2013, 978 1 84831 593 8

Letters

Jackson Lears, Mat Snow, Neal Ascherson, Zeynep Talay, Raymond Clayton, John Lucas, John Beckmann, John Dawkins, John Barnie, Peter Best

Terry Castle

Rah, Rah, Cheers, Queers

Brian Dillon

In Herne Bay

Charles Tripp

The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham. Princeton, 345 pp., £19.95, July 2013, 978 0 691 14940 0

Seamus Perry

Poet and Critic: The Letters of Ted Hughes and Keith Sagar edited by Keith Sagar. British Library, 340 pp., £25, May 2013, 978 0 7123 5862 0
Ted and I: A Brother’s Memoir by Gerald Hughes. Robson, 240 pp., £16.99, October 2012, 978 1 84954 389 7

Susan Watkins

Un New Deal pour l’Europe by Michel Aglietta and Thomas Brand. Odile Jacob, 305 pp., £20, March 2013, 978 2 7381 2902 4
Gekaufte Zeit: Die vertagte Krise des demokratischen Kapitalismus by Wolfgang Streeck. Suhrkamp, 271 pp., £20, March 2013, 978 3 518 58592 4
The Crisis of the European Union: A Response by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Ciaran Cronin. Polity, 120 pp., £16.99, April 2012, 978 0 7456 6242 8
For Europe! Manifesto for a Postnational Revolution in Europe by Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Guy Verhofstadt. CreateSpace, 152 pp., £9.90, September 2012, 978 1 4792 6188 8
German Europe by Ulrich Beck, translated by Rodney Livingstone. Polity, 98 pp., £16.99, March 2013, 978 0 7456 6539 9
The Future of Europe: Towards a Two-Speed EU? by Jean-Claude Piris. Cambridge, 166 pp., £17.99, December 2011, 978 1 107 66256 8
Au Revoir, Europe: What if Britain Left the EU? by David Charter. Biteback, 334 pp., £14.99, December 2012, 978 1 84954 121 3

Nikil Saval

Change by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt. Seagull, 117 pp., £9, October 2012, 978 0 85742 160 9
Sandalwood Death by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt. Oklahoma, 409 pp., £16, January 2013, 978 0 8061 4339 2
Pow! by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt. Seagull, 440 pp., £19.50, December 2012, 978 0 85742 076 3

Christian Lorentzen

Short Cuts: The Weiner Trilogy

Ian Penman

Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight. Bodley Head, 478 pp., £25, April 2013, 978 0 224 07391 2

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Only God Forgives’

Gavin Francis

Adrenaline by Brian Hoffman. Harvard, 298 pp., £18.95, April 2013, 978 0 674 05088 4

Christopher Tayler

Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw. Fourth Estate, 437 pp., £18.99, February 2013, 978 0 00 749415 6

Rebecca Solnit

Diary

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