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c o n t e n t s may 2 0 1 3 • i s s u e 40 9 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistants David Gelber • Tom Williams 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 | m a y 2 0 1 3 2 p u l p i t 1 Dominic Sandbrook b i o g r a p hy 5 Kenneth Minogue Edmund Bur ke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet Jesse Norman 6 Ric hard Overy Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life Jonathan Sperber Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography Rolf Hosfeld 8 Jer ry Brotton The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes Steven Nadler 10 Anne S ebba Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation Judith Mackrell a rt 12 Kevin Jackson Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica T J Clark 13 James Hal l The Loves of the Artists: Art & Passion in the Renaissance Jonathan Jones 14 P eyton Skipwith The Sculpture of Charles Wheeler Sarah Crellin Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947–93 (Ed) Annette Ratuszniak mone y 16 Martin Vander Weyer The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business Richard Brooks 17 K athleen Burk The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order Benn Steil 18 S umit Paul-Choudhury The Physics of Finance James Owen Weatherall stat e o f nat u r e 20 Caspar Henderson W eird Life: The Search for Life that Is Very, Very Different from Our Own David Toomey 21 S tephen Moss Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding George Monbiot 22 Hannah Rosefield A Sting in the Tale Dave Goulson
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c o n t e n t s l i t e r a r y l i v e s 23 Robert Gordon Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941–1985 24 Andr ew Hussey Algerian Chronicles Albert Camus 26 By ron Rogers R S Thomas: Uncollected Poems (Edd) Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies 27 Ric hard Davenport-Hines Tarantula’s Web: John Hayward, T S Eliot and Their Circle John Smart f o od f or thought 28 Jeremy Clarke The Breakfast Book Andrew Dalby The Breakfast Bible Seb Emina & Malcolm Eggs 29 Andy Mar tin Eating the Enlightenment: Food & the Sciences in Paris, 1670–1760 E C Spary g e n e r a l 31 Seamus Perry Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air Richard Holmes 32 Elif S hafak Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World Shereen El Feki 34 Jo hn Gray Evil Men James Dawes 35 Conor Gear ty The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay Jess Bravin The General: The Ordinary Man Who Challenged Guantanamo Ahmed Errachidi 37 Joanna K avenna Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape Jay Griffiths 38 F rances Wilson The Public Woman Joan Smith 39 C harles Fernyhough Permanent Present Tense: The Man with No Memory, and What He Taught the World Suzanne Corkin 40 Jessica Mann I Know You’re Going to Be Happy: A Story of Love and Betrayal Rupert Christiansen 40 Anthon y Sattin The Lost Art of Finding Our Way John Edward Huth p o em 41 Jane Draycott ‘Silent Movie’ g r av e mat t e r s 42 John Harwood The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead Carl Watkins 43 Har ry Mount How to Read a Graveyard: Journeys in the Company of the Dead Peter Stanford h i st or y 44 Boyd Hilton Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Antonia Fraser 45 Jane Rid ley 1913: The World before the Great War Charles Emmerson 46 Jo hn Man The History of Central Asia, Volume One: The Age of the Steppe Warriors Christophe Baumer 47 P aul Addison The Mass Observers: A History, 1937–1949 James Hinton f i c t i on 49 John Banville A Delicate Truth John le Carré 50 P amela Norris The Round House Louise Erdrich 51 Jonathan Bec kman All That Is James Salter • Collected Stories James Salter 53 S imon Hammond on five first novels 54 James Kidd Cle ver Girl Tessa Hadley 55 L ucian Robinson Fallen Land Patrick Flanery 56 K ate Saunders The Burgess Boys Elizabeth Strout 56 Jo hn Dugdale Big Brother Lionel Shriver 58 Malcolm F orbes The Aftermath Rhidian Brook 59 S imon Baker Under the Radar James Hamilton-Paterson 60 Histor ical Novels Jonathan Barnes 62 S ilenced Voices Lucy Popescu 19 LR Boo kshop 30 Crossword m a y 2 0 1 3 | Literary Review 3

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c o n t e n t s may 2 0 1 3 • i s s u e 40 9

Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistants David Gelber • Tom Williams 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 | m a y 2 0 1 3 2

p u l p i t 1 Dominic Sandbrook b i o g r a p hy 5 Kenneth Minogue

Edmund Bur ke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet Jesse Norman 6 Ric hard Overy

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life Jonathan Sperber Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography Rolf Hosfeld 8 Jer ry Brotton

The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes Steven Nadler 10 Anne S ebba

Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation Judith Mackrell a rt 12 Kevin Jackson

Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica T J Clark 13 James Hal l

The Loves of the Artists: Art & Passion in the Renaissance Jonathan Jones 14 P eyton Skipwith

The Sculpture of Charles Wheeler Sarah Crellin Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947–93 (Ed) Annette Ratuszniak mone y 16 Martin Vander Weyer

The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business Richard Brooks 17 K athleen Burk

The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order Benn Steil 18 S umit Paul-Choudhury

The Physics of Finance James Owen Weatherall stat e o f nat u r e 20 Caspar Henderson

W eird Life: The Search for Life that Is Very, Very Different from Our Own David Toomey 21 S tephen Moss

Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding George Monbiot 22 Hannah Rosefield

A Sting in the Tale Dave Goulson

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