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Vol. 30 No. 24 · 18 December 2008
Thomas Laqueur
The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction by Mark Neely. Harvard, 277 pp., £20.95, November 2007, 978 0 674 02658 2 This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust. Knopf, 346 pp., $27.95, January 2008, 978 0 375 40404 7
Letters
R.W. Johnson, Terence Ranger, Matthias Tomczak, Mahmood Mamdani, Mark Gevisser, J.G.A. Pocock, Robert Picciotto, James Cuno, Edward Luttwak, Mark Bostridge, Paul Kriwaczek
Peter Campbell
At the British Museum: Babylon
Patrick Cockburn
America Concedes
John Borneman
The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore and Politics by Jennifer Heath. California, 346 pp., £12.95, April 2008, 978 0 520 25518 0
Mark Ford
Poem: ‘The Death of Petronius’
Marina Warner
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights translated by Malcolm Lyons, with Ursula Lyons. Penguin, 2715 pp., £125, November 2008, 978 0 14 091166 4 ‘The Arabian Nights’ in Historical Context: Between East and West edited by Saree Makdisi and Felicity Nussbaum. Oxford, 337 pp., £55, November 2008, 978 0 19 955415 7
Alison Light
Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes by Judith Mackrell. Weidenfeld, 476 pp., £25, April 2008, 978 0 297 84908 7
Daniel Soar
Short Cuts: Books of the Year of the Year
Elisabeth Ladenson
Memoirs by Hortense Mancini and Marie Mancini, edited and translated by Sarah Nelson. Chicago, 217 pp., £31, August 2008, 978 0 226 50279 3
Mark Kishlansky
The Long Parliament of Charles II by Annabel Patterson. Yale, 283 pp., £30, September 2008, 978 0 300 13708 8
Craig Raine
Poem: ‘Those No-Doubt-About-It Infidelity Blues’
Simon Jenkins
The Duel: Castlereagh, Canning and Deadly Cabinet Rivalry by Giles Hunt. Tauris, 214 pp., £20, January 2008, 978 1 84511 593 7
Seamus Perry
William Wordsworth’s ‘The Prelude’: A Casebook edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford, 406 pp., £19.99, September 2006, 0 19 518092 5
Caleb Crain
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe edited by K. Michael Hays and Dana Miller. Yale, 257 pp., £35, July 2008, 978 0 300 12620 4
Caroline Fraser
Red Mandarin Dress by Qiu Xiaolong. Sceptre, 310 pp., £7.99, July 2008, 978 0 340 93518 7
Tariq Ali
Diary: Murder in the Family
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