Vol. 29 No. 16 · 16 August 2007

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Vol. 29 No. 16 · 16 August 2007

Linda Colley

A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein. Hutchinson, 628 pp., £25, June 2007, 978 0 09 192078 4
Hillary Clinton: Her Way: The Biography by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta. Murray, 438 pp., £20, June 2007, 978 0 7195 6892 3

Letters

Rod Edmond, Gabriel Egan, Chimen Abramsky, Norman Zide, Shashi Tharoor, Christine Lindey, Peter Burgess, Arthur Searle, David Whalin, Archie Burnett

Henry Siegman

The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam

John Lanchester

The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries edited by Alastair Campbell and Richard Stott. Hutchinson, 794 pp., £25, July 2007, 978 0 09 179629 7

Rosemary Hill

Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service by Alison Light. Fig Tree, 376 pp., £20, August 2007, 978 0 670 86717 2

Terry Castle

Travels with My Mom

Anne Carson

Poem: ‘Triple Sonnet of the Plush Pony’

Rosemarie Bodenheimer

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell edited by Joanne Shattock et al. Pickering & Chatto, 4716 pp., £900, May 2006, 9781851967773

Patrick Wright

Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao by Margaret MacMillan. Murray, 384 pp., £25, October 2006, 0 7195 6522 7

Deborah Friedell

Short Cuts: First Impressions

R.W. Johnson

The State v. Nelson Mandela: The Trial That Changed South Africa by Joel Joffe. Oneworld, 288 pp., £16.99, July 2007, 978 1 85168 500 4

Joanna Biggs

Joshua Spassky by Gwendoline Riley. Cape, 164 pp., £11.99, May 2007, 978 0 224 07699 9

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘The Simpsons Movie’

Adam Thirlwell

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon. Fourth Estate, 414 pp., £17.99, June 2007, 978 0 00 715039 7

Peter Campbell

At the Wellcome: The Heart

Karl Schlögel

Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin by Jochen Hellbeck. Harvard, 436 pp., £19.95, May 2007, 978 0 674 02174 7

Rashid Khalidi

Shared Irresponsibility

Jenny Diski

Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled by Tim Heald. Weidenfeld, 346 pp., £20, July 2007, 978 0 297 84820 2

Inigo Thomas

Diary: New York Megacity

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