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Vol. 28 No. 7 · 6 April 2006
Thomas Laqueur
Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism by István Rév. Stanford, 340 pp., £19.95, January 2005, 0 8047 3644 8
Letters
Adam Glantz, Michael Szanto, Daniel Pipes, Jeffrey Herf & Andrei Markovits, Michael Taylor, Chris Oakley, Christopher Hitchens, Basil Morley, Toby Shelley, James Mishalani, Lesley Marshall, Evan Riley, James Hannah, Adrian Bowyer
Slavoj Žižek
Nobody has to be vile
Neal Ascherson
The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany by David Blackbourn. Cape, 497 pp., £30, January 2006, 0 224 06071 6
Paul Ginsborg
Is Berlusconi finished?
R.F. Langley
Poem: ‘The Bellini in San Giovanni Crisostomo’
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘L’Enfant’, ‘Caché’
Frank Kermode
Life, End of by Christine Brooke-Rose. Carcanet, 119 pp., £12.95, February 2006, 1 85754 846 9
Eleanor Birne
The Observations by Jane Harris. Faber, 415 pp., £12.99, April 2006, 0 571 22335 4
Anne Hollander
Dressed in Fiction by Clair Hughes. Berg, 214 pp., £17.99, December 2005, 1 84520 172 8
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Ian Blair and the IPCC
Frances Richard
Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. Thames and Hudson, 704 pp., £45, March 2005, 0 500 23818 9
Andrew Saint
Sprawl: A Compact History by Robert Bruegmann. Chicago, 301 pp., £17.50, January 2006, 0 226 07690 3
Peter Campbell
At the British Museum: Michelangelo’s Drawings
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
Poem: ‘Poem of the Nile’
Robert Irwin
Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer by Alexander Maitland. HarperCollins, 528 pp., £25, February 2006, 0 00 255608 1
Nicholas Guyatt
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama. BBC, 448 pp., £20, September 2005, 0 563 48709 7
Patrick Cockburn
Diary: The End of Iraq
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