Browse other issues from this year
Vol. 27 No. 17 · 1 September 2005
Neal Ascherson
The Broken Boy by Patrick Cockburn. Cape, 312 pp., £15.99, June 2005, 0 224 07108 4
Letters
John Palattella, Menachem Kellner, Geoffrey Chandler, Humphrey Cooper, George Amory, Robert Kroninger, Edward Luttwak, Derek Robinson, Richard Morris, Simon Skinner
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘Over Gower Street’
Susan Pedersen
Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 by Nadja Durbach. Duke, 276 pp., £14.95, March 2005, 0 8223 3423 2
Helen Vendler
Dante in English edited by Eric Griffiths and Matthew Reynolds. Penguin, 479 pp., £16.99, May 2005, 0 14 042388 5
Saree Makdisi
Closed off, Walled in
Christopher Reid
Two Poems
Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin, edited by Gregory Elliott. Verso, 416 pp., £25, February 2005, 1 84467 016 3
R.W. Johnson
The Guy Liddell Diaries. Vol. I: 1939-42 edited by Nigel West. Frank Cass, 329 pp., £25, February 2005, 0 415 35213 4
Christopher Tayler
Somerset Maugham: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers. Vintage, 411 pp., £12, April 2005, 1 4000 3052 8
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Evolution versus Metamorphosis
Elizabeth Cook
The Poems and Plays of Isaac Rosenberg edited by Vivien Noakes. Oxford, 427 pp., £90, August 2004, 0 19 818715 7
Theo Tait
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes. Cape, 360 pp., £17.99, July 2005, 0 224 07703 1
Dinah Birch
Hide-and-Seek with Angels: A Life of J.M. Barrie by Lisa Chaney. Hutchinson, 402 pp., £20, June 2005, 0 09 179539 7
Peter Campbell
In Auvergne: Painting in the Open Air
James Hamilton-Paterson
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule by Joanna Kavenna. Viking, 334 pp., £16.99, February 2005, 0 670 91395 2 The Idea of North by Peter Davidson. Reaktion, 271 pp., £16.95, January 2005, 1 86189 230 6
Steven Shapin
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith. Bloomsbury, 308 pp., £17.99, April 2005, 0 7475 6368 3
Andy Beckett
Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-84 by Simon Reynolds. Faber, 577 pp., £16.99, April 2005, 0 571 21569 6
Benjamin Markovits
Diary: Austin weird
Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.
Sign up to our newsletter
For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.