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January 2009
The Devil's Whore fails to acknowledge the role of religious passions in the Civil War
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December 2008
Little Dorrit's uncanny similarities to today's financial crisis makes it more suitable for adaptation than much of modern literature
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November 2008
Far from revealing what has gone wrong with American politics, Simon Schama's new series shows what has gone wrong with British television
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October 2008
Generation Kill, its critics and the messy reality of war
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