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Vol. 31 No. 13 · 9 July 2009
Rory Stewart
The Irresistible Illusion
Letters
Frank Grace, Nora Crook, Chris Weeks, Mike Mosher, Robert Lumley, Moshé Machover, Nigel Gould-Davies, Peter Green, Harry Stopes
Christopher Caldwell
Le Monde selon K. by Pierre Péan. Fayard, 331 pp., €19, February 2009, 978 2 213 64372 4
Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘Pentheus and Dionysus’
Tim Parks
Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone by Stanislao Pugliese. Farrar, Straus, 426 pp., $35, June 2009, 978 0 374 11348 3
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘North by Northwest’
Glen Newey
Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss. Princeton, 116 pp., £11.95, October 2008, 978 0 691 13788 9
Rosemarie Bodenheimer
George Gissing: A Life by Paul Delany. Phoenix, 444 pp., £14.99, February 2009, 978 0 7538 2573 0
Daniel Finn
Short Cuts: Tax Havens
Thomas Jones
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. Virago, 501 pp., £16.99, June 2009, 978 1 84408 601 6
Sam Thompson
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower. Granta, 238 pp., £10.99, April 2009, 978 1 84708 048 6
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
The Oxford Handbook of Case edited by Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer. Oxford, 928 pp., £85, November 2008, 978 0 19 920647 6
Tom Shippey
Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain by Ronald Hutton. Yale, 491 pp., £30, May 2009, 978 0 300 14485 7
Peter Campbell
In an Empty Room: Paintings without People
Caroline Walker Bynum
The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages by Robert Bartlett. Cambridge, 170 pp., £17.99, April 2008, 978 0 521 70255 3
Clancy Martin
Diary: My Life as a Drunk
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