New Statesman - <![CDATA[Mark Bearn]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/mark_bearn en <![CDATA[Temple of unreason]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/01/tibetan-book-buddhist-dead http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/01/tibetan-book-buddhist-dead Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT Mark Bearn The Tibetan Book of the Dead eds Graham Coleman and Thupten Jinpa, trans. Gyurme Dorje Penguin, 592pp, £12.99

]]> <![CDATA[Living the dream]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200612110047 http://www.newstatesman.com/200612110047 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT Mark Bearn Mellon: an American life David Cannadine Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 780pp, £30

]]> <![CDATA[State of insecurity]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200502070045 http://www.newstatesman.com/200502070045 Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:00:00 GMT Mark Bearn Afghanistan: the mirage of peace Chris Johnson and Jolyon Leslie Zed Books, 237pp, £15.95 ISBN 1842773771

]]> <![CDATA[Money to burn]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200501170048 http://www.newstatesman.com/200501170048 Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:00:00 GMT Mark Bearn The World's Banker: a story of failed states, financial crises, and the wealth and poverty of nations Sebastian Mallaby Yale University Press, 462pp, £19.95 ISBN 030010801X

]]> <![CDATA[They dare to dream]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200409130064 http://www.newstatesman.com/200409130064 Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:00:00 GMT Mark Bearn Observations on the United States

]]> <![CDATA[On the rampage]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200408020033 http://www.newstatesman.com/200408020033 Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:00:00 GMT Mark Bearn Generation Kill Evan Wright Bantam, 368pp, £12.99 ISBN 0593053478 Iraq: the borrowed kettle Slavoj Zizek Verso, 188pp, £16

]]> <![CDATA[Americans get a raw deal]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200405310067 http://www.newstatesman.com/200405310067 Mon, 31 May 2004 12:00:00 GMT Mark Bearn High prices and poor technology are symptoms of a deeper malaise

]]> <![CDATA[Elegy for the US]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200405240042 http://www.newstatesman.com/200405240042 Mon, 24 May 2004 12:00:00 GMT Mark Bearn More Equal Than Others: America from Nixon to the new century Godfrey Hodgson Princeton University Press, 379pp, £19.95 ISBN 0691117888

]]> <![CDATA[Fiction - Southern comfort]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200402230045 http://www.newstatesman.com/200402230045 Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:00:00 GMT Mark Bearn The Last Juror John Grisham Century, 355pp, £17.99 ISBN 1844131610

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