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Vol. 28 No. 11 · 8 June 2006
Andrew Bacevich
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor. Atlantic, 603 pp., £25, March 2006, 1 84354 352 4
Letters
Christian Wolmar, Paul Dimoldenberg, Jerome Slater, Daniel Pipes, Salah el Serafy, Alex Fox, Sabah Salih, John Jenkins, Jeremy Harte, Ramnik Shah, Virginia Prieto-Fineberg
Patrick Cockburn
What the neighbours are up to
James Meek
Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim’s Journey to Guantánamo and Back by Moazzam Begg and Victoria Brittain. Free Press, 395 pp., £18.99, February 2006, 0 7432 8567 0
Maya Jasanoff
For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies by Robert Irwin. Allen Lane, 416 pp., £25, January 2006, 0 7139 9415 0
James Wood
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey. Faber, 269 pp., £16.99, June 2006, 0 571 23147 0
Mark Rudman
Poem: ‘Casino in Small C’
Christopher Tayler
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders. Bloomsbury, 358 pp., £10.99, June 2006, 0 7475 8221 1
Peter Campbell
At the Scuderie del Quirinale: Antonello da Messina
Stephen Sedley
Towards a Right to Privacy
John Lanchester
Short Cuts: cricket’s slanging matches
Alain Supiot
The Condition of France
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘The Da Vinci Code’
David Coward
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil. Cape, 614 pp., £20, April 2006, 0 224 07810 0
Terry Eagleton
Marcel Mauss: A Biography by Marcel Fournier, translated by Jane Marie Todd. Princeton, 442 pp., £22.95, January 2006, 0 691 11777 2
Martin Jay
Karl Jaspers, a Biography: Navigations in Truth by Suzanne Kirkbright. Yale, 352 pp., £25, November 2004, 0 300 10242 9
Don Paterson
Poem: ‘Three Versions from Rilke’s ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’’
Tom Shippey
The Anglo-Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge. Oxford, 407 pp., £65, January 2006, 0 19 926722 7
Gillian Darley
Diary: John Evelyn and his gardens
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