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contents march 2017 • issue 451 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Editorial Assistant Sophie Baggott Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack 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 | march 2017 2 pulpit 1 D J Taylor biography 5 Catherine Fletcher Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom Erica Benner 7 T homas Shippey Cnut the Great Timothy Bolton 9 Donald R ayfield The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II & the Russian Revolution Robert Service • Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait Victor Sebestyen 10 David Gelber Njing a of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen Linda M Heywood 12 Gavin W eightman Man of Iron: Thomas Telford & the Building of Britain Julian Glover 13 Jo hn Clay The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power of Seeing Damion Searls foreign parts 15 Maria Margaronis Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe Kapka Kassabova 16 Roger Cr owley Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities Bettany Hughes 17 S ara Wheeler Havana: A Subtropical Delirium Mark Kurlansky history 19 John Gray Civil Wars: A History in Ideas David Armitage 20 David P ryce-Jones The Six Day War Guy Laron 22 Jo hn Keay Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India Shashi Tharoor 23 Joe Moshenska The Sensational P ast: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses Carolyn Purnell 25 Adam L eBor A Crime in the Family Sacha Batthyány
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contents art & music 26 Norman Lebrecht The Political Orchestra: The Vienna & Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich Fritz Trümpi 27 Dominic Gr een Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity (edd) Elizabeth Prettejohn & Peter Trippi 29 James S tourton Rogues’ Gallery: A History of Art & Its Dealers Philip Hook footprints 30 John Banville revisits Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady literary lives 31 Patricia Duncker The Transferred Life of George Eliot: The Biography of a Novelist Philip Davis 32 Andr ew Lycett Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle & the Creation of Holmes Michael Sims 34 Jonathan Keates The N ovel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of ‘Les Misérables’ David Bellos medicine 36 Manjit Kumar The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses Meredith Wadman 37 Ric hard Canning How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists & Scientists Tamed AIDS David France animal matters 39 Charles Foster Other Minds: The Octopus & the Evolution of Intelligent Life Peter Godfrey-Smith 40 P atrick Scrivenor Ivory: Power & Poaching in Africa Keith Somerville general 42 Damian Thompson The Catholics: The Church & Its People in Britain & Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day Roy Hattersley 43 Jonathan Meades It ’s Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use & Abuse of Clichés Orin Hargraves 45 Joan S mith Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking & Watching Adam Alter 46 F rances Wilson Heartthrobs: A History of Women & Desire Carol Dyhouse 47 W illiam Palmer Fathers Sam Miller • Fathers and Sons Howard Cunnell • The Old King in His Exile Arno Geiger 48 Max Hildebr and Herding Cats: The Art of Amateur Cricket Captaincy Charlie Campbell fiction 49 Tim Martin Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 50 Anthon y Cummins A Natural Ross Raisin 51 Melanie W hite A Line Made by Walking Sara Baume 52 Ke vin Power Exit West Mohsin Hamid 53 Adr ian Turpin In Extremis Tim Parks 54 S am Kitchener on four debut novels 55 Jude Coo k on four short story collections 56 N ick Holdstock The Explosion Chronicles Yan Lianke 56 L esley Downer Pachinko Min Jin Lee 60 Jessic a Mann Crime 58 L ucy Popescu Silenced Voices 14 Crossword 20 Liter ary Review Bookshop at Heywood Hill march 2017 | Literary Review 3

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contents march 2017 • issue 451 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Editorial Assistant Sophie Baggott Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack 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 D J Taylor biography 5 Catherine Fletcher

Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom Erica Benner 7 T homas Shippey

Cnut the Great Timothy Bolton 9 Donald R ayfield

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II & the Russian Revolution Robert Service • Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait Victor Sebestyen 10 David Gelber

Njing a of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen Linda M Heywood 12 Gavin W eightman

Man of Iron: Thomas Telford & the Building of Britain Julian Glover 13 Jo hn Clay

The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power of Seeing Damion Searls foreign parts 15 Maria Margaronis

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe Kapka Kassabova 16 Roger Cr owley

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities Bettany Hughes 17 S ara Wheeler

Havana: A Subtropical Delirium Mark Kurlansky history 19 John Gray

Civil Wars: A History in Ideas David Armitage 20 David P ryce-Jones

The Six Day War Guy Laron 22 Jo hn Keay

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India Shashi Tharoor 23 Joe Moshenska

The Sensational P ast: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses Carolyn Purnell 25 Adam L eBor

A Crime in the Family Sacha Batthyány

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