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c o n t e n t s december 2 0 1 3 / ja n uary 2 0 1 4 • i s s u e 4 1 6 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. p u l p i t 1 Lloyd Shepherd h i st or y 6 Dominic Sandbrook The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism Doris Kearns Goodwin 7 Piers Brendon Operation Unthinkable: The Third World War – British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire, 1945 Jonathan Walker 9 Andrea Stuart Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture Gaiutra Bahadur 10 Odd Arne Westad China’s War with Japan, 1937–1945 Rana Mitter 12 Alan Allport Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe, 1944-5 John Buckley 13 Jay Parini The Men Who United the States Simon Winchester f or e i g n pa rts 14 Michael Burleigh Hezbollah Matthew Levitt 16 Bill Emmott Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival David Pilling 17 Adam LeBor Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel Max Blumenthal 18 John Keay Crossing the Bay of Bengal Sunil S Amrith 19 Sara Wheeler Man Belong Mrs Queen: Adventures with the Philip Worshippers Matthew Baylis stag e & s c r e e n 21 David Cesarani The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler Ben Urwand 22 John Walsh Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations Peter Evans & Ava Gardner 23 Frank McLynn Olivier Philip Ziegler b i o g r a p hy 25 Bernard Porter Gandhi Before India Ramachandra Guha 26 John Gray Walter Benjamin Howard Eiland & Michael W Jennings 27 Leanda de Lisle The Creation of Anne Boleyn Susan Bordo 29 David Abulafia Renaissance Emir: A Druze Warlord at the Court of the Medici T J Gorton 30 Jonathan Keates Raven: The Turbulent World of Baron Corvo Robert Scoble 31 Bharat Tandon Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books Claudia Roth Pierpont Literary Review | d e c e m b e r 2 0 1 3 / j a n u a r y 2 0 1 4 2
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c o n t e n t s 33 Caroline Moorehead Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa Jane Rogoyska 34 Jer emy Lewis Priscilla Nicholas Shakespeare • The Girl from Station X: My Mother’s Unknown Life Elisa Segrave p o e t r y 36 Seamus Perry Poetry of Witness (edd) Carolyn Forché & Duncan Wu the human sta i n 38 Irving Kirsch The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry Gary Greenberg 40 C harles Fernyhough Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil Paul Bloom 41 Andr ew Brown Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life J Craig Venter a rt & mus i c 42 Rupert Christiansen Musorgsky and His Circle Stephen Walsh 43 C harles Shaar Murray The Beatles: All These Years – Tune In Mark Lewisohn 44 T im Hilton El Greco Fernando Marías 45 James S tourton Bernard Berenson Rachel Cohen 46 F rances Spalding The Letters of Paul Cézanne (ed) Alex Danchev 48 L esley Downer Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art (edd) Timothy Clark, C Andrew Gerstle, Aki Ishigami & Akiko Yano • Japanese Erotic Art: The Hidden World of Shunga Ofer Shagan 49 P hilip Hensher Autobiography Morrissey 50 T om Fleming Breakfast at Sotheby’s: An A–Z of the Art World Philip Hook hot t o p i c s 51 Eric Kaufmann The British Dream David Goodhart • Exodus Paul Collier 53 Colin T udge Feeding Frenzy: The New Politics of Food Paul McMahon 55 Mar k Maslin Earthmasters Clive Hamilton f r e u d 56 Daniel Pick Correspondence 1904-1938: Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud (ed) Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo c i v i l i s at i on s 58 Felipe Fernández-Armesto The Making of the Middle Sea Cyprian Broodbank 59 Edwar d N Luttwak The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam G W Bowersock na p o l e on 61 Saul David Wellington: The Path to Victory, 1769-1814 Rory Muir • Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power, 1799-1815 Philip Dwyer 63 L ucy Moore Josephine Kate Williams 64 L eslie Mitchell Britain Against Napoleon Roger Knight the atom i c ag e 66 Paul Addison Churchill ’s Bomb Graham Farmelo 67 Jo hn Gribbin Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler Philip Ball 68 Ale x Goodall Command and Control Eric Schlosser l e t t e r f r om i sta n b u l 70 Maya Jaggi b a d s e x r e p ort 73 Jonathan Beckman r e s u r r e c t i on 74 John Banville on Georges Simenon g e n e r a l 76 Elif Shafak Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Lila Abu-Lughod 77 Alan Judd The Life of the Automobile Steven Parissien 78 Joan S mith Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing Lynne Segal 80 Al lan Massie The Gods of Olympus Barbara Graziosi 81 P eter Raby Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago (edd) John van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker 82 S amuel Moyn The Endtimes of Human Rights Stephen Hopgood 84 C hristopher Hart Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration and Get to Work Mason Currey 85 F rances Wilson How to Be a Heroine Samantha Ellis 86 F rank Brinkley Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and Other Typographical Curiosities Keith Houston 87 Malcolm Beith N arcoland Anabel Hernández d e c e m b e r 2 0 1 3 / j a n u a r y 2 0 1 4 | Literary Review 3

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c o n t e n t s december 2 0 1 3 / ja n uary 2 0 1 4 • i s s u e 4 1 6

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.

p u l p i t 1 Lloyd Shepherd h i st or y 6 Dominic Sandbrook

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism Doris Kearns Goodwin 7 Piers Brendon

Operation Unthinkable: The Third World War – British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire, 1945 Jonathan Walker 9 Andrea Stuart

Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture Gaiutra Bahadur 10 Odd Arne Westad

China’s War with Japan, 1937–1945 Rana Mitter 12 Alan Allport

Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe, 1944-5 John Buckley 13 Jay Parini

The Men Who United the States Simon Winchester f or e i g n pa rts 14 Michael Burleigh Hezbollah Matthew Levitt 16 Bill Emmott

Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival David Pilling 17 Adam LeBor

Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel Max Blumenthal 18 John Keay Crossing the Bay of Bengal Sunil S Amrith 19 Sara Wheeler

Man Belong Mrs Queen: Adventures with the Philip Worshippers Matthew Baylis stag e & s c r e e n 21 David Cesarani

The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler Ben Urwand 22 John Walsh

Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations Peter Evans & Ava Gardner 23 Frank McLynn Olivier Philip Ziegler b i o g r a p hy 25 Bernard Porter Gandhi Before India Ramachandra Guha 26 John Gray

Walter Benjamin Howard Eiland & Michael W Jennings 27 Leanda de Lisle The Creation of Anne Boleyn Susan Bordo 29 David Abulafia

Renaissance Emir: A Druze Warlord at the Court of the Medici T J Gorton 30 Jonathan Keates

Raven: The Turbulent World of Baron Corvo Robert Scoble 31 Bharat Tandon

Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books Claudia Roth Pierpont

Literary Review | d e c e m b e r 2 0 1 3 / j a n u a r y 2 0 1 4 2

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