Contents
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Maurice Keen
- Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe by Peter Spufford
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Letters
Anne Summers, Patrick Skelton, Nick Cohen, Paul Seabright, Caryll Faraldi, Hayden Murphy, Ian Wall, Arif Azad, Andrew Sheppard, Jean Elliott -
Ruth Padel
Two Poems -
Conor Gearty
How did Blair get here?: The folly of the impending war -
Michael Byers
The Laws of War, US-Style: No Way to Fight a War -
David Ramsbotham
Operation Overstretch: Unfair to the Army -
Tom Paulin
Poem: ‘During the Countdown’ -
James Wood
- Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
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Benjamin Markovits
- Ignorance by Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher
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Terry Eagleton
- A Defence of ‘History and Class Consciousness’: Tailism and the Dialectic by Georg Lukács, translated by Esther Leslie
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Colm Tóibín
- Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W.B. Yeats by Ann Saddlemyer
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Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Dodgy Latin -
Peter Campbell
At Tate Britain: British Art and the French Romantics -
E.S. Turner
- Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc by Joseph Pearce
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Ian Sansom
- John Betjeman: New Fame, New Love by Bevis Hillier
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John Bossy
- The Ambassadors’ Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance by John North
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August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘A History of Western Music: Chapter 11’ -
Jeremy Harding
- Indictment at The Hague: The Milosevic Regime and the Crimes of the Balkan Wars by Norman Cigar and Paul Williams
- Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia by Brendan Simms
- Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo by Fred Abrahams
- Milosevic: A Biography by Adam LeBor
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Yitzhak Laor
Who shall we blame it on?: Lament for the Israeli Left -
Andrew O’Hagan
Diary smiles for the President