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Vol. 28 No. 5 · 9 March 2006
Hilary Mantel
A Lie about My Father by John Burnside. Cape, 324 pp., £12.99, March 2006, 0 224 07487 3
Letters
Christopher Prendergast, Terence Kelly, Evan Riley, Gordon Poole, Ian Birchall, Raymond Clayton, Gerry Harrison, Richard Cummings, J.A. Bosworth
Charles Nicholl
The wind comes up out of nowhere
John Hartley Williams
Poem: ‘On the Money’
Charles Glass
The Secret History of al-Qaida by Abdel Bari Atwan. Saqi, 256 pp., £16.99, February 2006, 0 86356 760 6 Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer. Potomac, 307 pp., £11.95, July 2005, 1 57488 862 5 Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden edited by Bruce Lawrence, translated by James Howarth. Verso, 292 pp., £10.99, November 2005, 1 84467 045 7 Osama: The Making of a Terrorist by Jonathan Randal. Tauris, 346 pp., £9.99, October 2005, 1 84511 117 6
John Gardner
Rhetoric and the Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning by Neil MacCormick. Oxford, 287 pp., £40, July 2005, 0 19 826878 5
Gerald Dawe
Poem: ‘Points West’
Eric Hobsbawm
J.D. Bernal: The Sage of Science by Andrew Brown. Oxford, 562 pp., £25, November 2005, 0 19 851544 8
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Cheney’s Cavalier Way with a Shotgun
Theo Tait
Seven Lies by James Lasdun. Cape, 199 pp., £14.99, February 2006, 0 224 07592 6
Terry Eagleton
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson. Verso, 431 pp., £20, September 2005, 1 84467 033 3
Daniel Soar
Remainder by Tom McCarthy. Metronome, 274 pp., £6, October 2005, 2 916262 00 8
David Wootton
At Day’s Close: A History of Nighttime by Roger Ekirch. Weidenfeld, 447 pp., £20, June 2005, 0 297 82992 0 Saving the Daylight: Why We Put the Clocks Forward by David Prerau. Granta, 256 pp., £14.99, October 2005, 1 86207 796 7
Hal Foster
At the Guggenheim: David Smith
Sameer Rahim
The Drift Latitudes by Jamal Mahjoub. Chatto, 202 pp., £14.99, February 2006, 0 7011 7822 1
Maya Jasanoff
The Highly Civilised Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World by Dane Kennedy. Harvard, 354 pp., £17.95, September 2005, 0 674 01862 1
Ian Sansom
The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend by Steve Turner. Bloomsbury, 363 pp., £8.99, February 2006, 0 7475 8079 0 Walk the Line directed by James Mangold.November 2005
Tariq Ali
Diary: Libya during the Cartoon Controversy
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