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Vol. 27 No. 7 · 31 March 2005
John Lanchester
David Blunkett by Stephen Pollard. Hodder, 359 pp., £20, December 2004, 0 340 82534 0
Letters
Valerie Yule, Clive James, Jeremy Bernstein, Subho Basu, Gerard McBurney, Myron Kaplan, Matt Cavanagh, J.R. Pole
Jenny Diski
The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan. Ebury, 484 pp., £17.99, March 2005, 0 09 190506 0
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘On Discovering at Dinner that Adam Zagajewski and I Share a Birthday’
Rory Stewart
What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman. Princeton, 154 pp., £12.95, November 2004, 0 691 12179 6 Blinded by the Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib and Saddam’s Iraq by Matthew McAllester. Harper Perennial, 304 pp., $13.95, February 2005, 0 06 058820 9 The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson. Little, Brown, 389 pp., £20, February 2005, 0 316 72990 6 The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq by Christian Parenti. New Press, 211 pp., £12.99, December 2004, 1 56584 948 5
John Bossy
The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery by Ingrid Rowland. Chicago, 230 pp., £16, January 2005, 0 226 73036 0
Jeremy Harding
Mother One, Mother Two
T.J. Clark
Poem: ‘Manet and Monet and Marx and Freud’
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Michael Jackson’s frailties
Theo Tait
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon. Fourth Estate, 127 pp., £10, February 2005, 0 00 719602 4
Peter Campbell
At the National Gallery: Caravaggio’s final years
Thomas Karshan
Villages by John Updike. Hamish Hamilton, 321 pp., £17.99, February 2005, 9780241143087
Michael Friedman
The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity by Raymond Knapp. Princeton, 361 pp., £22.95, December 2004, 0 691 11864 7
Gillian Darley
Betjeman: The Bonus of Laughter by Bevis Hillier. Murray, 744 pp., £25, October 2004, 0 7195 6495 6
Andrew Saint
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt. Weidenfeld, 432 pp., £25, June 2004, 0 297 60767 7
Susan Pedersen
Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London by Seth Koven. Princeton, 399 pp., £19.95, September 2004, 0 691 11592 3
Tom Vanderbilt
Diary: The View from Above
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