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Vol. 27 No. 10 · 19 May 2005
Frank Kermode
William Empson: Vol. I: Among the Mandarins by John Haffenden. Oxford, 695 pp., £30, April 2005, 0 19 927659 5
Letters
Niall Ferguson, Neil Vickers, Richard Guy, Geoffrey Best, David Seddon, Sydney Bernard Smith, Graham Brown, Timothy Knapman
Ross McKibbin
What Blair Threw Away
John Burnside
Poem: ‘Responses to Augustine of Hippo. Part 3: De libero arbitrio’
Robert Irwin
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi. HarperCollins, 449 pp., £25, August 2004, 9780007116119
Corey Robin
Arguing about War by Michael Walzer. Yale, 208 pp., £16.99, July 2004, 0 300 10365 4 Chain of Command by Seymour Hersh. Penguin, 394 pp., £17.99, September 2004, 0 7139 9845 8 Torture: A Collection edited by Sanford Levinson. Oxford, 319 pp., £18.50, November 2004, 0 19 517289 2
Eric Foner
The Dominion of War: Empire and conflict in North America 1500-2000 by Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton. Atlantic, 520 pp., £19.99, July 2005, 1 903809 73 8
Ilan Pappe
Fortress Israel
James Morone
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America by Scott Sandage. Harvard, 362 pp., £22.95, February 2005, 9780674015104
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: ‘The Dinner Party’
Partha Dasgupta
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond. Allen Lane, 575 pp., £20, January 2005, 0 7139 9286 7
Eleanor Birne
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters. Fourth Estate, 295 pp., £12.99, April 2005, 0 00 720036 6
Elizabeth Lowry
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel. Fourth Estate, 451 pp., £16.99, May 2005, 0 00 715775 4
David Wheatley
Poem: ‘‘A Pint of Milk’’
Theo Tait
The Bear Boy by Cynthia Ozick. Weidenfeld, 310 pp., £12.99, March 2005, 0 297 84808 9
August Kleinzahler
Collected Poems by Lee Harwood. Shearsman, 522 pp., £17.95, May 2004, 9780907562405
Peter Campbell
At the Royal Academy: Matisse’s revelations
Ian Gilmour
Lady Caroline Lamb by Paul Douglass. Palgrave, 354 pp., £16.99, December 2004, 1 4039 6605 2
Carolin Crawford
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene. Penguin, 569 pp., £7.99, February 2005, 0 14 101111 4
Patrick Cockburn
Diary: a report from a divided Iraq
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