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Vol. 27 No. 5 · 3 March 2005
Bernard Porter
Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire by David Anderson. Weidenfeld, 406 pp., £20, January 2005, 0 297 84719 8 Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya by Caroline Elkins. Cape, 475 pp., £20, January 2005, 9780224073639
Letters
Stephen Sedley, Rod Edmond, Scott Soames, Matilde Macagno, Joseph Epstein, Dominic Kirkham, Christopher Wintle, J.F. Darycott, Martin Ward
Bill Manhire
Poem: ‘Dogs’
John Kerrigan
W.B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. II: The Arch-Poet 1915-39 by Roy Foster. Oxford, 822 pp., £16.99, March 2005, 0 19 280609 2
Jenny Diski
Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost and Where Did It Go? by Michael Bywater. Granta, 296 pp., £12.99, October 2004, 1 86207 701 0
Rosemary Hill
Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family by Barbara Caine. Oxford, 488 pp., £25, February 2005, 0 19 925034 0
David Gilmour
Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India by Elizabeth Buettner. Oxford, 324 pp., £25, July 2004, 0 19 924907 5
Ross McKibbin
Regulating Commercial Gambling: Past, Present and Future by David Miers. Oxford, 588 pp., £70, September 2004, 0 19 825672 8
Paul Laity
Humphrey Jennings by Kevin Jackson. Picador, 448 pp., £30, October 2004, 0 330 35438 8
Adam Phillips
Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War by Peter Barham. Yale, 451 pp., £19.99, August 2004, 0 300 10379 4
Conor O’Callaghan
Two Poems
Robert Alter
Jacob’s Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation by Mary Douglas. Oxford, 211 pp., £45, November 2004, 0 19 926523 2
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Blair’s nuptials
Andrew Bacevich
The Remnants of War by John Mueller. Cornell, 258 pp., £16.50, September 2004, 0 8014 4239 7 The Future of War: The Re-Enchantment of War in the 21st Century by Christopher Coker. Blackwell, 162 pp., £50, October 2004, 1 4051 2042 8 The New Wars by Herfried Münkler. Polity, 180 pp., £14.99, October 2004, 0 7456 3337 4
Gabriele Annan
The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living by Courtney Angela Brkic. Granta, 316 pp., £12.99, October 2004, 9781862076570 This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace by Swanee Hunt. Duke, 307 pp., £21.50, January 2005, 0 8223 3355 4 Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia by Lynne Jones. Harvard, 336 pp., £18.95, February 2005, 0 674 01561 4
Joanna Kavenna
The Optimists by Andrew Miller. Sceptre, 313 pp., £16.99, March 2005, 9780340825129
Christopher Tayler
Saturday by Ian McEwan. Cape, 280 pp., £17.99, February 2005, 0 224 07299 4
Hal Foster
In Central Park: The Gates
Saree Makdisi
Diary: Living with the Wall
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