Vol. 29 No. 13 · 5 July 2007

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Vol. 29 No. 13 · 5 July 2007

Alastair Crooke

Hamas: Unwritten Chapters by Azzam Tamimi
Where Now for Palestine? The Demise of the Two-State Solution edited by Jamil Hilal
Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Sara Roy

Letters

Richard Strier, Dominic Sandbrook, Ian Mortimer, Inigo Thomas, Robert Ferguson, Peter Goodrich, Scott Malcomson, Stephen Bowd

Frank Kermode

The Letters of A.E. Housman edited by Archie Burnett

Joshua Kurlantzick

China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise by Ian Taylor
China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21st Century edited by Joshua Eisenman, Eric Heginbotham and Derek Mitchell
China’s African Policy 
China’s Expanding Role in Africa: Implications for the United States by Bates Gill, Chin-hao Huang and J. Stephen Morrison
Friends and Interests: China’s Distinctive Links with Africa by Barry Sautman
African Perspectives on China in Africa edited by Firoze Manji and Stephen Marks
Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier by Harry Broadman

R.F. Langley

Poem: ‘The Best Piece of Sculpture in Perugia’

Charles Tripp

Tigris Gunboats: The Forgotten War in Iraq 1914-17 by Wilfred Nunn

Scott Sherman

The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of the ‘New York Times’ by Anthony DePalma

Graham Robb

Medusa: The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece by Jonathan Miles

Mark Greif

Falling Man by Don DeLillo

Evan Hughes

You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem

J. Hoberman

Short Cuts: The CIA’s Animal Farm

Adam Phillips

Impotence: A Cultural History by Angus McLaren

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘Futures’

Michael Wood

Collected Film Poetry by Tony Harrison
Collected Poems by Tony Harrison

William Wootten

A Cypress Walk: Letters to ‘Frieda’ by Alun Lewis

Mary Beard

Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford edited by Peter Sussman

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography by Piero Melograni, translated by Lydia Cochrane
Mozart: The First Biography by Franz Niemetschek, translated by Helen Mautner
Mozart’s Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music by Jane Glover

Peter Campbell

At Tate Britain: How We Are

Chaohua Wang

Diary: Remembering Tiananmen

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