November 2010 The Interrogative Mood Padgett Powell ‘If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell’s: immensely readable, ingenious, witty, and ultimately important-feeling in a way you can’t quite describe but don’t need to’ Richard Ford MORE
November 2010 Tolstoy: A Russian Life Rosamund Bartlett Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here at the 100th anniversary of his death is a fresh perspective on his extraordinary life and times. MORE
November 2010 Iran: the Looming Crisis: Can the West live with Iran’s nuclear threat? Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi In August 2002 the National Council of the Resistance in Iran (NCRI) revealed in Washington to a stunned world how advanced Iran’s nuclear programme was. And in September 2009 US President Barack Obama exposed yet another clandestine nuclear site there, bringing the possibility of a nuclear arsenal ever closer. MORE
November 2010 Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town Mary Beard ‘The world’s most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy … scrutinising and animated in equal measure’ Laura Silverman, Daily Mail MORE
