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Vol. 27 No. 20 · 20 October 2005
Bernard Porter
The Official History of the Falklands Campaign. Vol. I: The Origins of the Falklands War by Lawrence Freedman. Routledge, 253 pp., £35, June 2005, 0 7146 5206 7 The Official History of the Falklands Campaign. Vol. II: War and Diplomacy by Lawrence Freedman. Routledge, 849 pp., £49.95, June 2005, 0 7146 5207 5
Letters
Fatema Ahmed, Alex Smith, Richard Scott, David Runciman, Roger House, J.M.W. Scott, Mary Elkins, Nicholas von Maltzahn, Ken Seigneurie
August Kleinzahler
Two Poems
Michael Dobson
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro. Faber, 429 pp., £16.99, June 2005, 0 571 21480 0
James Wood
The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays 1962-2002 by John Bayley, selected by Leo Carey. Duckworth, 677 pp., £25, March 2005, 0 7156 3312 0
Anatol Lieven
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew Bacevich. Oxford, 270 pp., £16.99, August 2005, 0 19 517338 4
Ian Gilmour
Vote for the Beast!
Michael Wood
Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow by Stanley Cavell. Harvard, 302 pp., £18.95, May 2005, 0 674 01704 8
Eric Hobsbawm
Benefits of Diaspora
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: How to concoct a conspiracy theory
Tessa Hadley
All for Love by Dan Jacobson. Hamish Hamilton, 262 pp., £16.99, February 2005, 0 241 14273 3
Peter Campbell
At the Royal Academy: Edvard Munch’s troubles
Peter D. McDonald
J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event by Derek Attridge. Chicago, 225 pp., £13.50, May 2005, 0 226 03117 9 Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee. Secker, 265 pp., £16.99, September 2005, 0 436 20611 0
Colin Burrow
Memoir by John McGahern. Faber, 272 pp., £16.99, September 2005, 0 571 22810 0
E.S. Turner
The Liner: Retrospective and Renaissance by Philip Dawson, foreword by Stephen Payne. Conway Maritime, 256 pp., £30, July 2005, 0 85177 938 7
Paul Farley
Two Poems
Patrick Cockburn
Diary: Civil War in Baghdad
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