Vol. 28 No. 13 · 6 July 2006

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Michael Wood

The Penguin Freud Reader edited by Adam Phillips. Penguin, 570 pp., £14.99, January 2006, 0 14 118743 3

Letters

Christopher May, Alex Smith, Jonathan Baines, Stan Smith, David Wasserstein, Jonathan Green, Benedetta Craveri, Phil Edwards, Karel Thein, Eric Brewer

Anne Carson

Poem: ‘Walks for Girls and Boys’

John Barrell

John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty by Arthur Cash. Yale, 482 pp., £19.95, February 2006, 0 300 10871 0

Rashid Khalidi

What Hamas must do

Adam Kuper

Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis by Colin Murray and Peter Sanders. Edinburgh, 493 pp., £50, May 2006, 0 7486 2284 5

Ferdinand Mount

Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism by Stephen Dorril. Viking, 717 pp., £30, April 2006, 0 670 86999 6
Hurrah for the Blackshirts! Fascists and Fascism between the Wars by Martin Pugh. Pimlico, 387 pp., £8.99, March 2006, 1 84413 087 8

Andrew O’Hagan

On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson. Pantheon, 146 pp., $20, January 2006, 0 375 42326 5

Peter Campbell

At Tate Britain: Howard Hodgkin

Rosemary Hill

Short Cuts: Stonehenge for the solstice

Wendy Lesser

Mencken: The American Iconoclast by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. Oxford, 662 pp., £19.99, January 2006, 0 19 507238 3

Jeremy Adler

Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth by Brigitte Hamann, translated by Alan Bance. Granta, 582 pp., £12.99, June 2006, 1 86207 851 3

Patrick Cockburn

After Zarqawi

Richard J. Evans

Liaisons Dangereuses: Sex, Law and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great by Mary Lindemann. Johns Hopkins, 353 pp., £23.50, May 2006, 0 8018 8317 2

Henry Shukman

Two Poems

John Foot

Moggiopoli

Graham Robb

Bicycle: The History by David Herlihy. Yale, 480 pp., £15.99, August 2006, 0 300 12047 8

Ian Sansom

The Book of Dave by Will Self. Viking, 496 pp., £17.99, June 2006, 0 670 91443 6

Elizabeth Lowry

Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali. Doubleday, 299 pp., £14.99, June 2006, 0 385 60486 6

Anna Neistat

Diary: In Chechnya

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