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Vol. 26 No. 23 · 2 December 2004
Neal Ascherson
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-21 by Isaac Deutscher. Verso, 497 pp., £15, December 2003, 1 85984 441 3 The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-29 by Isaac Deutscher. Verso, 444 pp., £15, December 2003, 1 85984 446 4 The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-40 by Isaac Deutscher. Verso, 512 pp., £15, December 2003, 1 85984 451 0
Letters
Slavoj Žižek, Christina Gombar, Abigail King, Rollo Burgess, Jack Adrian, Lindesay Irvine, Julian Rathbone, George Wedd
Anatol Lieven
What’s the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right by Thomas Frank. Secker, 306 pp., £12, September 2004, 0 436 20539 4
Margaret MacMillan
Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy by David Stevenson. Basic Books, 564 pp., £26.50, June 2004, 0 465 08184 3
James Davidson
The Road to Delphi: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles by Michael Wood. Chatto, 271 pp., £17.99, January 2004, 0 7011 6546 4
Daniel Soar
The Double by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Harvill, 292 pp., £15.99, August 2004, 1 84343 099 1
John Sturrock
Short Cuts: football slang
Ian Sansom
Some Great Thing by Colin McAdam. Cape, 358 pp., £12.99, March 2004, 9780224064552
Julian Bell
William Coldstream by Bruce Laughton. Yale, 368 pp., £30, July 2004, 0 300 10243 7
Bill Manhire
Two Poems
E.S. Turner
Metro-Land: British Empire Exhibition Number by Oliver Green. Southbank, 144 pp., £16.99, July 2004, 1 904915 00 0
Terry Eagleton
From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker by Paul Murray. Cape, 356 pp., £18.99, July 2004, 0 224 04462 1
Peter Campbell
At Tate Britain: Paula Rego
Dinah Birch
Anny: A Life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie by Henrietta Garnett. Chatto, 322 pp., £18.99, January 2004, 0 7011 7129 4
Anne Barton
The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare by Helen Cooper. Oxford, 560 pp., £65, June 2004, 0 19 924886 9
Mark Ford
Diary: Love and Theft
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