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contents december 2015 / january 2016 • issue 438 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistant David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Assistant Katherine Bogden Bayard Founding Father Auberon Waugh Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith 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, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH • Tel: +44 (0) 1778 395 165 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: subscriptions@warnersgroup.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. pulpit 1 Frances Wilson power & pleasure 9 Piers Brendon No More Champagne: Churchill & His Money David Lough 10 Tim Stanley Theodore Roosevelt in the Field Michael R Canfield 12 Lucy Moore George and Martha Washington: A Revolutionary Marriage Flora Fraser foreign parts 13 Richard Cockett The Maldives: Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy J J Robinson 14 Jonathan Keates Genoa, ‘La Superba’: The Rise & Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower Nicholas Walton 15 Jan Morris The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea Tom Blass 17 Christopher Ross Kendo: Culture of the Sword Alexander C Bennett history 18 Philip Parker In the Land of Giants: Journeys through the Dark Ages Max Adams 19 Anne Somerset The Murder of King James I Alastair Bellany & Thomas Cogswell 21 Leslie Mitchell The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London Nile Green 22 Ben Hutchinson Light in Germany T J Reed 24 Simon Heffer 1916 Keith Jeffery • Elegy Andrew Roberts 25 Oleg Gordievsky Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence Jonathan Haslam being & nothingness 26 John Gray Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind George Makari 27 Darrin M McMahon The Work of the Dead Thomas W Laqueur Literary Review | december 2015 / january 2016 2
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contents 29 Charles Fernyhough Forgetting: Myths, Perils & Compensations Douwe Draaisma 30 Anil Ananthaswamy NeuroTribes: How to Think Smarter about People Who Think Differently Steve Silberman • In a Different Key: The Story of Autism John Donvan & Caren Zucker poetry 32 Robert Crawford The Poems of T S Eliot: Volume I, Collected & Uncollected Poems (edd) Christopher Ricks & Jim McCue • The Poems of T S Eliot: Volume II, Practical Cats & Further Verses (edd) Christopher Ricks & Jim McCue biography 34 Nicholas Roe Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake Leo Damrosch 36 John Keay The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820–43 Charles Allen 37 Frederic Raphael Orson Welles: One Man Band Simon Callow • Young Orson: The Years of Luck & Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane Patrick McGilligan 39 Jonathan Mirsky The Cooler King: The True Story of William Ash – Spitfire Pilot, POW and WWII’s Greatest Escaper Patrick Bishop art & architecture 40 Jonathan Meades Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture 1945–1975 Elain Harwood 41 David Ekserdjian Picture Titles: How & Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names Ruth Bernard Yeazell 43 Will Wiles Fallen Glory: The Lives & Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers James Crawford literary lives 44 Jay Parini Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 (edd) Benjamin Griffin & Harriet Elinor Smith 45 Victoria Glendinning Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934–1995 (edd) Avril Horner & Anne Rowe 46 Alan Judd John le Carré: The Biography Adam Sisman + PEOPLE WHO LOVE BOOKS WILL LOVE THE LONDON LIBRARY A Gift Membership of The London Library is a present to be enjoyed all year round. With 17 miles of shelves to roam, over a million books to borrow, peaceful reading rooms in which to read and relax, and a host of other benefits, membership of this unique literary institution is a gift to be treasured. £100 & £50 Membership Gift Vouchers also available. THE LONDON LIBRARY – EXACTLY HOW A REAL LIBRARY SHOULD BE www.londonlibrary.co.uk/literaryreview december 2015 / january 2016 | Literary Review 3

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contents december 2015 / january 2016 • issue 438

Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistant David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Assistant Katherine Bogden Bayard Founding Father Auberon Waugh Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith 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, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH • Tel: +44 (0) 1778 395 165 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: subscriptions@warnersgroup.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.

pulpit 1 Frances Wilson power & pleasure 9 Piers Brendon

No More Champagne: Churchill & His Money David Lough 10 Tim Stanley

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field Michael R Canfield 12 Lucy Moore

George and Martha Washington: A Revolutionary Marriage Flora Fraser foreign parts 13 Richard Cockett

The Maldives: Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy J J Robinson 14 Jonathan Keates

Genoa, ‘La Superba’: The Rise & Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower Nicholas Walton 15 Jan Morris

The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea Tom Blass 17 Christopher Ross

Kendo: Culture of the Sword Alexander C Bennett history 18 Philip Parker

In the Land of Giants: Journeys through the Dark Ages Max Adams 19 Anne Somerset

The Murder of King James I Alastair Bellany & Thomas Cogswell 21 Leslie Mitchell

The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London Nile Green 22 Ben Hutchinson

Light in Germany T J Reed 24 Simon Heffer

1916 Keith Jeffery • Elegy Andrew Roberts 25 Oleg Gordievsky

Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence Jonathan Haslam being & nothingness 26 John Gray

Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind George Makari 27 Darrin M McMahon

The Work of the Dead Thomas W Laqueur

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