Vol. 29 No. 8 · 26 April 2007

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Letters

Mahmood Mamdani, Elliott Green, Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, David Lane, Andrew Scheuber, Alexander Scrimgeour, Louis Harovitz, Peter Loptson, M.F. Burnyeat, Michael Prior, Kathleen Bell

Colin Kidd

Brown v. Salmond

Christopher Tayler

Heir to Blair

Tony Harrison

Three Poems

Jeremy Harding

Sarko, Ségo & Co.

Brian Dillon

Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime by Kenneth Helphand. Trinity, 303 pp., $34.95, November 2006, 1 59534 021 1

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘300’

Adam Phillips

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn. Harper, 512 pp., £25, April 2007, 978 0 00 725193 3

John Sturrock

Short Cuts: Plain Sailing

Eric Hobsbawm

The Lost World of British Communism by Raphael Samuel. Verso, 244 pp., £19.99, November 2006, 1 84467 103 8
Communists and British Society 1920-91 by Kevin Morgan, Gidon Cohen and Andrew Flinn. Rivers Oram, 356 pp., £16.99, January 2007, 978 1 85489 145 7
Bolshevism and the British Left, Part One: Labour Legends and Russian Gold by Kevin Morgan. Lawrence and Wishart, 320 pp., £18.99, March 2007, 978 1 905007 25 7

R.W. Johnson

Michael Foot: A Life by Kenneth O. Morgan. Harper, 568 pp., £25, March 2007, 978 0 00 717826 1

Billy Collins

Two Poems

Colm Tóibín

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. Cape, 166 pp., £12.99, April 2007, 978 0 224 08118 4

Peter Campbell

In the Garden

Deborah Friedell

Tomorrow by Graham Swift. Picador, 248 pp., £16.99, April 2007, 978 0 330 45018 8

Peter Howarth

The Man who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas by Byron Rogers. Aurum, 326 pp., £16.99, June 2006, 1 84513 146 0

Ben Rawlence

Diary: in Nigeria

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