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Issue: June 2009

Deep Thought Over Computers

‘Is it possible that the next generation of computers will solve chess?’

Dominic Lawson

Requiem
From Endpoint and other poems
John Updike

Terminal Pursuits
A new poem
Anthony Thwaite

The Revenant
A new poem
Hamish Robinson

Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
A new poem
Clive James

David Hockney (1)
anonymous

David Hockney (2)
anonymous

Religion Resurrected
God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith is Changing the World by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Damian Thompson

Arms and the Man
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen; War Since 1990 and War: A Short History by Jeremy Black
Michael Burleigh

Global Warning

An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming by Nigel Lawson, and Blueprint for a Safer Planet by Nicholas Stern

Myron Ebell

An autumn note
“For many, the end of this uneasy year cannot come quickly enough”
Andreas Campomar

An ordinary killing
Ian Cobain’s book uses the killing of Millar McAllister to paint a meticulous portrait of the Troubles
Chris Mullin

Greater—not wiser
John Mullan elucidates the genius of Charles Dickens
Anthony Quinn
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