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Vol. 27 No. 22 · 17 November 2005
Rick Perlstein
Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Anti-war Icon by Mary Hershberger. New Press, 228 pp., £13.99, September 2005, 1 56584 988 4
Letters
William Livesey, Tony Neville, John Horsbrugh-Porter, John Alpe, Sean Gallagher, Derek Robinson, Nicholas Pole, Will Stevens, Christopher Prendergast
Bill Manhire
Poem: ‘An Inspector Calls’
Neal Ascherson
Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt. Heinemann, 878 pp., £25, October 2005, 0 434 00749 8
Andrew Nathan
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. Cape, 814 pp., £25, June 2005, 0 224 07126 2
Peter Campbell
At the British Museum: Samuel Palmer’s dream landscapes
Stefan Collini
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney. Farrar, Straus, 642 pp., £35, August 2005, 0 374 11312 2
Robert Crawford
Poem: ‘Coming to France’
Emily Wilson
Hesitant Heroes: Private Inhibitions, Cultural Crisis by Theodore Ziolkowski. Cornell, 163 pp., £17.50, March 2004, 0 8014 4203 6
Norman Dombey
Short Cuts: Iraq, Uranium and Forged Intelligence
August Kleinzahler
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-91 edited by William Corbett. Turtle Point, 470 pp., £13.99, May 2005, 1 885586 30 2
Thomas Jones
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. Canongate, 199 pp., £12, October 2005, 1 84195 645 7
Edward Luttwak
Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity by J.E. Lendon. Yale, 468 pp., £18.95, June 2005, 0 300 10663 7
R.W. Johnson
Dear Bill: A Memoir by W.F. Deedes. Macmillan, 451 pp., £14.99, July 2005, 9781405052665
Anne Carson
Poem: ‘Zeus Bits’
Jenny Diski
Take a Girl like Me: Life with George by Diana Melly. Chatto, 280 pp., £14.99, July 2005, 0 7011 7906 6 Slowing Down by George Melly. Viking, 221 pp., £17.99, October 2005, 0 670 91409 6
Colin Kidd
1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough. Allen Lane, 386 pp., £25, June 2005, 0 7139 9863 6
Nicholas Guyatt
His Excellency George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis. Faber, 320 pp., £20, March 2005, 0 571 21212 3
Rose George
Diary: in Dewsbury
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