Vol. 28 No. 6 · 23 March 2006

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt

The Israel Lobby

Letters

Zakaria Fatih, Malcolm Bull, Howard Anawalt, Gary Lachman, Damian Grant, Russell Seitz, Michael Hope, Michael Carley, Alastair Brotchie, James Harris, Elias Georgantas, Liz Gladstone

Valerio Magrelli, translated by Jamie McKendrick

Four Poems

Jenny Diski

Martha Freud: A Biography by Katja Behling, translated by R.D.V. Glasgow. Polity, 206 pp., £25, January 2006, 0 7456 3338 2

Megan Vaughan

The Coloniser and the Colonised by Albert Memmi, translated by Howard Greenfield. Earthscan, 197 pp., £12.95, October 2003, 1 84407 040 9

Colin Kidd

State of the Union: Unionism and the Alternatives in the United Kingdom since 1707 by Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan. Oxford, 283 pp., £45, September 2005, 0 19 925820 1

Christopher Tayler

Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth by Steven Kellman. Norton, 372 pp., $16.99, September 2005, 0 393 05779 8
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth. Picador US, 462 pp., $15, July 2005, 0 312 42412 4

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Novelists aren’t popstars

Bee Wilson

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen Youngkin. Kentucky, 613 pp., $39.95, September 2005, 0 8131 2360 7

Peter Campbell

At the Courtauld: Giambattista Tiepolo

Brian Dillon

The Sailor in the Wardrobe by Hugo Hamilton. Fourth Estate, 263 pp., £16.99, February 2006, 0 00 719217 7

Aingeal Clare

Woods etc by Alice Oswald. Faber, 56 pp., £12.99, May 2005, 0 571 21852 0

Rebecca Solnit

In the Company of Crows and Ravens by John Marzluff and Tony Angell. Yale, 384 pp., £18.95, October 2005, 0 300 10076 0

Andrew O’Hagan

Diary: a report from Malawi

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