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Vol. 28 No. 19 · 5 October 2006
Colin Burrow
Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs. Viking, 565 pp., £25, August 2006, 0 670 91510 6
Letters
Stephen Graubard, Sean Coleman, Jasper Goss, Charles Glass, Norma Clarke, Keith Gifford
Frank Kermode
On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain by Edward Said. Bloomsbury, 176 pp., £16.99, April 2006, 9780747583653 Late Thoughts: Reflections on Artists and Composers at Work edited by Karen Painter and Thomas Crow. Getty, 235 pp., $40, August 2006, 0 89236 813 6
Michael Dobson
Literature and Favouritism in Early Modern England by Curtis Perry. Cambridge, 328 pp., £50, February 2006, 0 521 85405 9
Stephen Holmes
After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads by Francis Fukuyama. Profile, 226 pp., £12.99, March 2006, 1 86197 922 3
Peter Campbell
At the Royal Academy: Rodin
Thomas Sugrue
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault. Oxford, 690 pp., £19.99, March 2006, 0 19 513674 8
Jamie McKendrick
Three Poems
James Campbell
In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Colour Line by George Hutchinson. Harvard, 611 pp., £25.95, June 2006, 0 674 02180 0
Paul Myerscough
Short Cuts: Zidane at work
Eleanor Birne
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Fourth Estate, 433 pp., £14.99, August 2006, 0 00 720027 7
Tessa Hadley
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. Hamish Hamilton, 324 pp., £16.99, August 2006, 0 241 14348 9
Richard Gott
Wavell: Soldier and Statesman by Victoria Schofield. Murray, 512 pp., £30, March 2006, 0 7195 6320 8
David Simpson
Weimar in Exile: The Anti-Fascist Emigration in Europe and America by Jean-Michel Palmier, translated by David Fernbach. Verso, 852 pp., £29.99, July 2006, 1 84467 068 6
Matthew Kelly
The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939-45 by Brian Girvin. Macmillan, 385 pp., £25, March 2006, 1 4050 0010 4
August Kleinzahler
Two Poems
Susan Pedersen
Young Women, Work and Family in England 1918-50 by Selina Todd. Oxford, 272 pp., £50, September 2005, 0 19 928275 7
Michael Taussig
Diary: in Colombia
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