Vol. 28 No. 3 · 9 February 2006

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Vol. 28 No. 3 · 9 February 2006

Malcolm Bull

The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing by Michael Mann. Cambridge, 580 pp., £17.99, January 2005, 0 521 53854 8
Genocide in the Age of the Nation State. Vol. I: The Meaning of Genocide by Mark Levene. Tauris, 266 pp., £24.50, August 2005, 1 85043 752 1
Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: Vol. II: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide by Mark Levene. Tauris, 463 pp., £29.50, August 2005, 1 84511 057 9

Letters

John Lanchester, Nicholas Cocks, Randy Cohen, Jonathan Carter, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Bruce Cumings, Adrian Glossop, John Leath

Stephen Sedley

The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson. Chatto, 429 pp., £20, October 2005, 0 7011 7602 4

John Sturrock

The Child by Jules Vallès, translated by Douglas Parmée. NYRB, 343 pp., £8.99, August 2005, 1 59017 117 9

Theo Tait

Houellebecq non autorisé: enquête sur un phénomène by Denis Demonpion. Maren Sell, 377 pp., €20, August 2005, 2 35004 022 4
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Gavin Bowd. Weidenfeld, 345 pp., £12.99, November 2005, 0 297 85098 9

Edwin Morgan

Poem: ‘The War on the War on Terror’

John Demos

White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America by Fintan O’Toole. Faber, 402 pp., £20, August 2005, 0 571 21840 7

Eric Foner

How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier by Stuart Banner. Harvard, 344 pp., £18.95, November 2005, 0 674 01871 0

Bruce Ackerman

The Stealth Revolution, Continued

Colin Burrow

The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Andrew Biswell. Picador, 434 pp., £20, November 2005, 0 330 48170 3

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: shipping containers

Jeremy Treglown

Olivia Manning: A Life by Neville Braybrooke and June Braybrooke. Chatto, 301 pp., £20, November 2004, 0 7011 7749 7

Jenny Diski

Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy in the Extreme South by David Crane. HarperCollins, 637 pp., £25, November 2005, 0 00 715068 7

Peter Campbell

In Paris

Frank Close

A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert Laughlin. Basic Books, 254 pp., £15.50, September 2005, 9780465038282

Mark Rudman

Poem: ‘Actor and Director at Twenty’

Solomon Feferman

Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel by Rebecca Goldstein. Norton, 224 pp., $13.95, February 2006, 0 393 32760 4

Richard Fortey

Bursting the Limits of Time by Martin Rudwick. Chicago, 840 pp., £31.50, December 2005, 0 226 73111 1

James Lasdun

Diary: Salad Days

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