Vol. 28 No. 10 · 25 May 2006

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Vol. 28 No. 10 · 25 May 2006

Nicholas Spice

Everyman by Philip Roth

Letters

Donald Baker, Philip Zelikow, John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt, Roger Jones

Gillian White

Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Alice Quinn

Ross McKibbin

The Reshuffle and After

Peter Campbell

At the National Gallery: Gentile Bellini

Jenny Diski

Nothing like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken

Bernard Porter

British Documents on the End of Empire Series B Vol. 9: Central Africa: Part I: Closer Association 1945-58 by Philip Murphy
British Documents on the End of Empire Series B Vol. 9: Central Africa: Part II: Crisis and Dissolution 1959-65 by Philip Murphy

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Everything Was For Ever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak

Daniel Soar

Short Cuts: What Ahmadinejad Meant

David Simpson

The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War by Robert Bevan

Walid Khazendar, translated by Tom Paulin

Four Poems

Colin Jones

Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson
Le Monde des salons by Antoine Lilti

Robin Robertson

Poem: ‘Out in the Open’

Barbara Newman

Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours translated by Ezra Pound, W.D. Snodgrass and Robert Kehew, edited by Robert Kehew
Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads and Carols edited by John Hirsh
An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman’s Song edited by Anne Klinck

Adam Phillips

Why? What Happens When People Give Reasons . . . and Why by Charles Tilly

Slavoj Žižek

Freud Lives!

Theo Tait

The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven by Alan Warner

John Sutherland

Diary: Do books have a future?

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