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contents june 2016 • issue 443 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial Assistant Francesca Carington Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Manager 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. Literary Review | june 2016 2 pulpit 1 Douglas Murray biography 5 Peter Marshall Martin Luther: Renegade & Prophet Lyndal Roper 7 Tom Stern The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Quest for Identity, 1844–1869 Daniel Blue 9 Jonathan Romain Disraeli: The Novel Politician David Cesarani 10 Lucy Moore Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait Biancamaria Fontana 11 Rupert Christiansen Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar Oliver Hilmes 13 Hugo Vickers Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy Paula Byrne behind closed doors 14 Michael Burleigh Naked Diplomacy: Power & Statecraft in the Digital Age Tom Fletcher 15 Christopher Andrew The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence & British Prime Ministers Richard J Aldrich & Rory Cormac 17 Martin Vander Weyer Shadow State: Inside the Secret Companies that Run Britain Alan White writers 18 Christopher Hart Love from Boy: Roald Dahl’s Letters to his Mother (ed) Donald Sturrock 19 Benjamin Ivry Emily Dickinson’s Poems as She Preserved Them (ed) Cristanne Miller 21 Nigel Andrew Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art Stephen H Blackwell & Kurt Johnson brazil 22 David Gelber Brazillionaires Alex Cuadros • Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City Luiz Eduardo Soares 24 Tim Richardson Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist Jens Hoffmann & Claudia J Nahson
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contents history 26 Patrick Marnham The French Resistance Olivier Wieviorka 27 Norman Stone Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, & Remade the Map of Europe Kevin J McNamara 29 Richard Overy Britain’s War: Into Battle, 1937–1941 Daniel Todman 31 Saul David Burma ’44 James Holland 32 Andrew Roberts Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis: Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of India 1926–31 (ed) Stuart Ball russia & the caucasus 33 Anna Reid Veiled and Unveiled in Chechnya and Dagestan Iwona Kaliszewska & Maciej Falkowski 35 Donald Rayfield Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism Charles Clover • A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko & Russia’s War with the West Luke Harding poem 36 Patrick Mackie ‘One Car’ memoirs 38 Jonathan Kirsch But You Did Not Come Back Marceline Loridan-Ivens • Asylum Moriz Scheyer 39 Robert Chesshyre Negroland: A Memoir Margo Jefferson 40 Frances Wilson Stars, Cars and Crystal Meth Jack Sutherland architecture 41 Andrew Crumey International Space Station: Architecture beyond Earth David Nixon 42 Otto Saumarez Smith Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism Barnabas Calder general 44 Sumit Paul-Choudhury The Gene: An Intimate History Siddhartha Mukherjee 45 Hannah Dawson The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick Jessica Riskin 47 Miranda Seymour The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House between the Wars Adrian Tinniswood 48 Gillian Darley A Walk in the Park: The Life & Times of a People’s Institution Travis Elborough 50 Tom Fort The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall’s Most Treacherous Stretch of Coast Gavin Knight • Tide: The Science & Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth Hugh Aldersey-Williams 51 Dominic Green White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World Geoff Dyer 52 Jeremy Lewis Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love & War Ian Buruma fiction 54 Jan Morris Golden Hill Francis Spufford 55 Elspeth Barker Vinegar Girl Anne Tyler 56 Alex Blasdel Barkskins Annie Proulx 57 Kevin Power Hystopia David Means 58 Richard Canning Our Young Man Edmund White 59 Jude Cook Fever of Animals Miles Allinson 60 Sam Kitchener The Lost Time Accidents John Wray 61 Paul Bailey Dodgers Bill Beverly 62 Tom Williams Lingua Franca William Thacker 63 Laura Gallagher The Girls Emma Cline 63 Melanie White The Muse Jessie Burton children’s books 65 Philip Womack on ten books for young readers crime 66 Stephen Bates We’ll All be Murdered in Our Beds! The Shocking History of Crime Reporting in Britain Duncan Campbell 67 Jessica Mann on seven crime novels 53 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 19 LR Bookshop at Heywood Hill 43 Crossword • 34 Letters june 2016 | Literary Review 3

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contents june 2016 • issue 443 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial Assistant Francesca Carington Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Manager 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.

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pulpit 1 Douglas Murray biography 5 Peter Marshall

Martin Luther: Renegade & Prophet Lyndal Roper 7 Tom Stern

The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Quest for Identity, 1844–1869 Daniel Blue 9 Jonathan Romain

Disraeli: The Novel Politician David Cesarani 10 Lucy Moore

Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait Biancamaria Fontana 11 Rupert Christiansen

Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar Oliver Hilmes 13 Hugo Vickers

Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy Paula Byrne behind closed doors 14 Michael Burleigh

Naked Diplomacy: Power & Statecraft in the Digital Age Tom Fletcher 15 Christopher Andrew

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence & British Prime Ministers Richard J Aldrich & Rory Cormac 17 Martin Vander Weyer

Shadow State: Inside the Secret Companies that Run Britain Alan White writers 18 Christopher Hart

Love from Boy: Roald Dahl’s Letters to his Mother (ed) Donald Sturrock 19 Benjamin Ivry

Emily Dickinson’s Poems as She Preserved Them (ed) Cristanne Miller 21 Nigel Andrew

Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art Stephen H Blackwell & Kurt Johnson brazil 22 David Gelber

Brazillionaires Alex Cuadros • Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City Luiz Eduardo Soares 24 Tim Richardson

Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist Jens Hoffmann & Claudia J Nahson

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