Vol. 29 No. 11 · 7 June 2007

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Thomas Laqueur

Five Germanys I Have Known by Fritz Stern. Farrar, Straus, 560 pp., £11.25, July 2007, 978 0 374 53086 0

Letters

Jonathan Prentice and Scott Malcomson, K. Vela Velupillai, Brian Lynch, Hamish Ford, George Adams, Martin Sanderson, Derek Robinson, Raymond Aronson, Helen Wright, Richard Tewkesbury, Ken Cooke

John Pemble

The Literary Tourist by Nicola J. Watson. Palgrave, 244 pp., £45, October 2006, 1 4039 9992 9

Mark Greif

Walt Disney: The Biography by Neal Gabler. Aurum, 766 pp., £25, May 2007, 978 1 84513 277 4
The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney by Michael Barrier. California, 393 pp., £18.95, April 2007, 978 0 520 24117 6
Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson by Tom Sito. Kentucky, 440 pp., £19.95, September 2006, 0 8131 2407 7

Nicholas Penny

Things I Didn’t Know: A Memoir by Robert Hughes. Harvill, 395 pp., £25, September 2006, 1 84655 014 9

Peter Campbell

At the National Gallery: Hands and Feet

Dan Jacobson

Kipling in South Africa

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘Sea Change’

David Edgar

White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties by Dominic Sandbrook. Little, Brown, 878 pp., £22.50, August 2006, 0 316 72452 1
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles by Dominic Sandbrook. Abacus, 892 pp., £19.99, May 2006, 0 349 11530 3

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Short Cuts: Gordon Brown

Jenny Turner

Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta. Picador, 290 pp., £12.99, April 2007, 978 0 330 44828 4

Bee Wilson

Lola Montez: Her Life and Conquests by James Morton. Portrait, 390 pp., £20, January 2007, 978 0 7499 5115 3

John Hartley Williams

Two Poems

David Carpenter

The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the British Nation by Ian Mortimer. Pimlico, 536 pp., £8.99, April 2007, 978 1 84413 530 1

Elizabeth Lowry

A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi, translated by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli. Penguin, 164 pp., £20, April 2007, 978 0 7139 9955 6

Joe Perkins

Making Globalisation Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice by Joseph Stiglitz. Allen Lane, 358 pp., £20, September 2006, 0 7139 9909 8
The Next Great Globalisation: How Disadvantaged Nations Can Harness Their Financial Systems to Get Rich by Frederic Mishkin. Princeton, 310 pp., £17.95, October 2006, 0 691 12154 0
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly. Oxford, 380 pp., £16.99, September 2006, 0 19 921082 9

Stephen Sedley

Diary: Judge Dredd

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