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Vol. 27 No. 6 · 17 March 2005

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Sheila Fitzpatrick

The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine

Letters

J.R. Pole, Charles Coutinho, Moira Dustin, Adam Shatz, W.G. Runciman, Richard Gott, Margret Powell-Joss, Orna Neumann, Augustus Young, David Mason

Slavoj Žižek

The Two Totalitarianisms

Sean Wilsey

Rats: A Year with New York’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan

August Kleinzahler

Two Poems

Peter Clarke

Keynes and His Critics: Treasury Responses to the Keynesian Revolution 1925-46 edited by G.C. Peden

Frank Kermode

Harold Nicolson by Norman Rose

Terry Castle

Desperately Seeking Susan

Denis Donoghue

James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writings edited by Sean Ryder
The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan: Prose 1832-39 edited by Jacques Chuto, Peter Van der Kamp, Augustine Martin and Ellen Shannon-Mangan
The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan: Prose 1840-82 edited by Jacques Chuto, Peter Van der Kamp, Augustine Martin and Ellen Shannon-Mangan
James Clarence Mangan: Poems edited by David Wheatley
Selected Poems of James Clarence Mangan edited by Jacques Chuto, Rudolf Holzapfel, Peter Van der Kamp and Ellen Shannon-Mangan

Paul Davis

Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750 by Christine Gerrard

Conor Gearty

Short Cuts: intercept evidence and terrorism trials

Nicholas Howe

The Cardinal’s Hat: Money, Ambition and Housekeeping in a Renaissance Court by Mary Hollingsworth

Peter Campbell

At Tate Modern and Modern Art Oxford: Joseph Beuys and Jannis Kounellis

Kitty Hauser

In Search of H.V. Morton by Michael Bartholomew

Katharine Fletcher

A Minimum of Charity

Andrew Berry

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist by Hervé le Guyader, translated by Marjorie Grene

Wyatt Mason

Pieces for the Left Hand: 100 Anecdotes by J. Robert Lennon

James Wood

The Secret Goldfish by David Means

Abi Curtis

Poem: ‘Preserved’

Christopher Prendergast

Diary: Piss where you like

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