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Vol. 27 No. 12 · 23 June 2005
Pankaj Mishra
The ‘People’s War’
Letters
Geoffrey Lehmann, Victor Black, Edward Luttwak, Jonathan Aldred, Mat Pires, Mark Vernon, Carol Hamilton, A.W. Brian Simpson, Donald Gardner
David A. Bell
The Legend of Napoleon by Sudhir Hazareesingh. Granta, 336 pp., £20, August 2004, 1 86207 667 7 The Retreat by Patrick Rambaud, translated by William Hobson. Picador, 320 pp., £7.99, June 2005, 0 330 48901 1 Napoleon: The Eternal Man of St Helena by Max Gallo, translated by William Hobson. Macmillan, 320 pp., £10.99, April 2005, 0 333 90798 1 The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in 19th-Century France by Sudhir Hazareesingh. Harvard, 307 pp., £32.95, May 2004, 0 674 01341 7 Napoleon and the British by Stuart Semmel. Yale, 354 pp., £25, September 2004, 0 300 09001 3
Robert Crawford
Poem: ‘The Exorcist’
Patrick Wright
DPM: Disruptive Pattern Material; An Encyclopedia of Camouflage: Nature – Military – Culture DPM, 2 vols, 944 pp., £100, September 2004, 9780954340407
Günter Eich, translated by Michael Hofmann
Five Poems
Frank Kermode
What Good Are the Arts? by John Carey. Faber, 286 pp., £12.99, June 2005, 0 571 22602 7
Terry Eagleton
Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme by Martin Jay. California, 431 pp., £22, January 2005, 0 520 24272 6
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: What’s your codename?
David Simpson
The Question of Zion by Jacqueline Rose. Princeton, 202 pp., £12.95, April 2005, 0 691 11750 0
Peter Campbell
At the British Museum: Under African Eyes
James Wood
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. Viking, 252 pp., £12.99, May 2005, 0 670 91554 8
Eleanor Birne
The Accidental by Ali Smith. Hamish Hamilton, 306 pp., £14.99, May 2005, 0 241 14190 7
Mary Douglas
How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualisation of Ancient Israel by William Schniedewind. Cambridge, 257 pp., £25, May 2005, 0 521 82946 1
Nicholas Horsfall
Horace: Odes and Epodes edited by Niall Rudd. Harvard, 350 pp., £14.50, June 2004, 0 674 99609 7
Lorraine Daston
The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany by Neil Kenny. Oxford, 484 pp., £68, July 2004, 0 19 927136 4
Hugh Pennington
If H5N1 Evolves
Andrew Sugden
Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis by Michael Williams. Chicago, 689 pp., £49, January 2003, 0 226 89926 8
David Craig
Two Poems
Eliot Weinberger
Diary: Next stop, Forbidden City
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