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c o n t e n t s f e b r ua r y 2 0 1 3 • i s s u e 40 6 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistants Tom Williams • David Gelber Contributing Editors Michael Burleigh Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Father Auberon Waugh Cover Illustration Chris Riddell The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Fax: 020 7734 1844 • ISSN 0144 4360 © All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, FREEPOST RSJB-SUGY-ZKRA, Impakt MMD Ltd, 3-4 Pylon Way, Croydon CR0 4XX • Tel: 020 8683 7151 All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Printed in the United Kingdom by: Henry Ling Ltd, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester DT1 1HD • Tel: 01305 251 066 Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Rd, West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 7QX • Tel: 01895 433 800 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Subscriptions: theliteraryreview@warnes.co.uk Editorial: editorial@literaryreview.co.uk www.literaryreview.co.uk • @lit_review Designed by Cog Design. Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. The latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife. Literary Review | f e b r u a r y 2 0 1 3 2 p u l p i t 1 Carole Angier f or e i g n pa rts 5 Piers Brendon Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan William Dalrymple 7 Josh Glancy Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Douglas A Blackmon 8 Richard Cockett Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s Hidden War Frances Harrison 9 Robert Chesshyre The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown & the Collapse of an Industrial Giant Mark Binelli b i o g r a p hy 11 Ariane Bankes David Jones in the Great War Thomas Dilworth 12 Simon Heffer Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century Paul Kildea 14 Peyton Skipwith Jacques-Emile Blanche Jane Roberts 15 Bharat Tandon The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things Paula Byrne 16 Steve Fuller Emile Durkheim: A Biography Marcel Fournier 18 Rupert Christiansen Tatiana Leskova: A Ballerina at Large Suzana Braga 19 Catherine Peters Fanny and Stella: The Young Men who Shocked Victorian England Neil McKenna a i r s & g r a c e s 20 Michael Bywater Assholes: A Theory Aaron James 21 Christopher Howse Sorry! The English & Their Manners Henry Hitchings h i st or y 22 Richard Overy The Eagle Unbowed: Poland & the Poles in the Second World War Halik Kochanski 23 Paul Lay Elizabeth’s Sea Dogs: How the English became the Scourge of the Seas Hugh Bicheno
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c o n t e n t s 24 Peter Marshall Trent: What Happened at the Council John W O’Malley 26 David Cesarani Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing & Dying – The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs Sönke Neitzel & Harald Welzer 27 Michael Burleigh Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War & the Twilight of Empire Calder Walton 28 Norman Stone The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe Marci Shore 30 J W M Thompson An English Affair: Sex, Class & Power in the Age of Profumo Richard Davenport-Hines l i t e r a r y l i f e 31 Kevin Jackson Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews with J G Ballard, 1967–2008 (edd) Simon Sellars & Dan O’Hara 33 Seamus Perry The Fun Stuff and Other Essays James Wood 34 John Sutherland Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature Alastair Fowler p o em 35 John Burnside ‘To Tweedledee’ i ta ly 36 Robert Gordon The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio – Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War Lucy Hughes-Hallett 37 John Pollard Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy Christopher Duggan 38 Jonathan Keates Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town Lucy Riall g e n e r a l 40 George Walden The Silence of Animals: On Progress & Other Modern Myths John Gray 41 Michael Berkeley Play it Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible Alan Rusbridger 42 David Gelber Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day Deborah Cohen 43 Jonathan Meades Times’s Anvil: England, Archaeology & the Imagination Richard Morris 44 Anthony Daniels Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar Robert Lustig 45 Linden Burleigh Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found Cheryl Strayed 46 Vernon Bogdanor On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present Alan Ryan 47 George Gömöri The Album Amicorum and the London of Shakespeare’s Time June Schlueter f i c t i on 48 Maya Jaggi Pow! Mo Yan 49 Oliver Dennis Happy Valley Patrick White 50 Ursula K Le Guin Flight Behaviour Barbara Kingsolver 51 Malcolm Forbes Harvest Jim Crace 52 Pamela Norris Heartbreak Hotel Deborah Moggach 53 Kaite Welsh The Cleaner of Chartres Salley Vickers 53 Hannah Rosefield How Should a Person Be Sheila Heti 54 David Annand A Hologram for the King Dave Eggers 55 Sophie Hughes Raised from the Ground José Saramago 56 Fleur Macdonald The Engagement Chloe Hooper 56 Tom Williams The World Was All Before Them Matthew Reynolds 58 Jessica Mann Crime 60 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 59 Letters 10 Crossword 45 LR Bookshop 62 Poetry Competition f e b r u a r y 2 0 1 3 | Literary Review 3

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c o n t e n t s

24 Peter Marshall

Trent: What Happened at the Council John W O’Malley 26 David Cesarani

Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing & Dying – The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs Sönke Neitzel & Harald Welzer 27 Michael Burleigh

Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War & the Twilight of Empire Calder Walton 28 Norman Stone

The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe Marci Shore 30 J W M Thompson

An English Affair: Sex, Class & Power in the Age of Profumo Richard Davenport-Hines l i t e r a r y l i f e 31 Kevin Jackson

Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews with J G Ballard, 1967–2008 (edd) Simon Sellars & Dan O’Hara 33 Seamus Perry

The Fun Stuff and Other Essays James Wood 34 John Sutherland

Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature Alastair Fowler p o em 35 John Burnside ‘To Tweedledee’

i ta ly 36 Robert Gordon

The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio – Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War Lucy Hughes-Hallett 37 John Pollard

Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy Christopher Duggan 38 Jonathan Keates

Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town Lucy Riall g e n e r a l 40 George Walden

The Silence of Animals: On Progress & Other Modern Myths John Gray 41 Michael Berkeley

Play it Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible Alan Rusbridger

42 David Gelber

Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day Deborah Cohen 43 Jonathan Meades

Times’s Anvil: England, Archaeology & the Imagination Richard Morris 44 Anthony Daniels

Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar Robert Lustig 45 Linden Burleigh

Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found Cheryl Strayed 46 Vernon Bogdanor

On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present Alan Ryan 47 George Gömöri

The Album Amicorum and the London of Shakespeare’s Time June Schlueter f i c t i on 48 Maya Jaggi

Pow! Mo Yan 49 Oliver Dennis

Happy Valley Patrick White 50 Ursula K Le Guin

Flight Behaviour Barbara Kingsolver 51 Malcolm Forbes

Harvest Jim Crace 52 Pamela Norris

Heartbreak Hotel Deborah Moggach 53 Kaite Welsh

The Cleaner of Chartres Salley Vickers 53 Hannah Rosefield

How Should a Person Be Sheila Heti 54 David Annand

A Hologram for the King Dave Eggers 55 Sophie Hughes

Raised from the Ground José Saramago 56 Fleur Macdonald

The Engagement Chloe Hooper 56 Tom Williams

The World Was All Before Them Matthew Reynolds

58 Jessica Mann Crime 60 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 59 Letters 10 Crossword 45 LR Bookshop 62 Poetry Competition f e b r u a r y 2 0 1 3 | Literary Review 3

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