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c o n t e n t s may 2 0 1 4 • i s s u e 4 2 0 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 DSM 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: literaryreview@impakt.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 4 2 p u l p i t 1 Henry Jeffreys b i o g r a p hy 5 Rosemary Ashton Eleanor Marx: A Life Rachel Holmes 6 Ian Sansom Updike Adam Begley 8 Kevin Jackson Georgie & Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife – The Untold Story Norman Thomas di Giovanni 9 Brian Dillon Susan Sontag Jerome Boyd Maunsell f or e i g n pa rts 10 Patrick Marnham Congo: The Epic History of a People David Van Reybrouck • Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo Anjan Sundaram 11 Adam LeBor The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War Tim Butcher 12 Sudhir Hazareesingh The French Intifada: The Long War between France and Its Arabs Andrew Hussey 14 Hugh Kennedy Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood Justin Marozzi 15 Daniel Beer Leningrad: Siege and Symphony Brian Moynahan • St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past Catriona Kelly a dv e n t u r e r s 16 Jeremy Lewis The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor & the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis Wes Davis 17 Norman Stone Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Scott Anderson h i st or y 19 Neil Gregor The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order, 1916–1931 Adam Tooze 20 David Cesarani The Gestapo: Power & Terror in the Third Reich Carsten Dams & Michael Stolle
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c o n t e n t s 21 Kathleen Burk War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt Kwasi Kwarteng 23 Leanda de Lisle Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem Sharan Newman a n c i e n t wor l d 24 Allan Massie The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters Adam Nicolson 25 Peter Jones Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World Michael Scott • Sibyls: Prophecy and Power in the Ancient World Jorge Guillermo 26 Paul Cartledge Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece Robin Waterfield memoir 28 Simon Heffer An Encyclopaedia of Myself Jonathan Meades 29 Wendy Moore Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery Henry Marsh a n i mal s & m i n e r a l s 30 Richard Fortey The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert 31 Jan Morris Underlands: A Journey through Britain’s Lost Landscape Ted Nield 32 Alexandra Harris Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World Gillen D’Arcy Wood 33 Tom Fort Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians Richard Kerridge g e n e r a l 34 Anthony Kenny The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics Kenan Malik 36 John Gray Mammon’s Kingdom: An Essay on Britain, Now David Marquand 37 Caroline Moorehead Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat Helen McCarthy 38 John Sutherland The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the World's Greatest Invention Alexander Monro 40 Frances Wilson Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness Lisa Appignanesi 41 Frederic Raphael Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance Michael Goldfarb 42 John Gribbin The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity Pedro G Ferreira 44 Barney Ronay Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon Elizabeth Wilson 45 David Bodanis The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch Lewis Dartnell 46 Mira Bar-Hillel All that Is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster Danny Dorling p o e t r y 47 Ben Hutchinson Impromptus: Selected Poems Gottfried Benn f i c t i on 49 Alex Preston The Erl-King Michel Tournier 50 Jonathan Beckman Lost for Words Edward St Aubyn 51 Malcolm Forbes Eyrie Tim Winton 52 Jonathan Miles The Snow Queen Michael Cunningham 53 Oliver Dennis Falling out of Time David Grossman 54 Nick Hayes Polina Bastien Vivès 55 Toby Lichtig Glow Ned Beauman 56 Frank Brinkley Tigerman Nick Harkaway 56 A S H Smyth Redeployment Phil Klay 58 Suzi Feay Fallout Sadie Jones 58 Ted Hodgkinson At Night We Walk in Circles Daniel Alarcón 59 Ophelia Field The Lives of Others Neel Mukherjee 60 Jessica Mann Crime 48 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 55 Crossword 15 LR Bookshop m a y 2 0 1 4 | Literary Review 3

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c o n t e n t s may 2 0 1 4 • i s s u e 4 2 0

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 DSM 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: literaryreview@impakt.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 4 2

p u l p i t 1 Henry Jeffreys b i o g r a p hy 5 Rosemary Ashton

Eleanor Marx: A Life Rachel Holmes 6 Ian Sansom

Updike Adam Begley 8 Kevin Jackson

Georgie & Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife – The Untold Story Norman Thomas di Giovanni 9 Brian Dillon

Susan Sontag Jerome Boyd Maunsell f or e i g n pa rts 10 Patrick Marnham

Congo: The Epic History of a People David Van Reybrouck • Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo Anjan Sundaram 11 Adam LeBor

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War Tim Butcher 12 Sudhir Hazareesingh

The French Intifada: The Long War between France and Its Arabs Andrew Hussey 14 Hugh Kennedy

Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood Justin Marozzi 15 Daniel Beer

Leningrad: Siege and Symphony Brian Moynahan • St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past Catriona Kelly a dv e n t u r e r s 16 Jeremy Lewis

The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor & the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis Wes Davis 17 Norman Stone

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Scott Anderson h i st or y 19 Neil Gregor

The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order, 1916–1931 Adam Tooze 20 David Cesarani

The Gestapo: Power & Terror in the Third Reich Carsten Dams & Michael Stolle

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