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contents june 2018 • issue 465 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Editorial Assistant Paloma van Tol Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Manager Katherine Bogden Bayard 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: Seymour Distribution Ltd • Tel: 0207 429 4000 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 2018 2 diary 5 Jeremy Treglown power & politics 6 John Stubbs Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power Stephen Greenblatt 7 Avi Shilon Bibi: The Turbulent Life & Times of Benjamin Netanyahu Anshel Pfeffer 9 Richard Cockett How to Rig an Election Nic Cheeseman & Brian Klass 11 Christopher Coker Zbigniew Brzezinski Justin Vaïsse • On Grand Strategy John Lewis Gaddis art & music 12 James Hamilton Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece Celeste Farge, Bénédicte Garnier & Ian Jenkins 13 Igor Toronyi-Lalic Chopin’s Piano: A Journey through Romanticism Paul Kildea 15 Adrian Tinniswood Rooms of Their Own Nino Strachey biography 16 Darrin M McMahon Thomas Paine J C D Clark 18 Kevin Jackson Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt Philip Walker 19 Henrietta Garnett Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury & Feminism Tessa Boase 21 Catherine Peters The Murderer of Warren Street Marc Mulholland foreign parts 23 Keshava Guha Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family & the Making of Modern India Sujatha Gidla 24 Matthew Engel Trans-Europe Express Owen Hatherley 25 Gerald J Russello America, Inc: The 400-Year History of American Capitalism Bhu Srinivasan 26 Paul Willetts City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir Paul French
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contents mind & body 27 Mick Brown How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan 29 Anthony Daniels Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About It James Le Fanu 30 Wendy Moore With the End in Mind: Dying, Death & Wisdom in an Age of Denial Kathryn Mannix history 31 Jonathan Steinberg Pogrom: Kishinev & the Tilt of History Steven J Zipperstein 32 John Keay Imperial Twilight: The Opium War & The End of China’s Last Golden Age Stephen R Platt 34 Blair Worden In Pursuit of Civility: Manners & Civilization in Early Modern England Keith Thomas 36 Christopher Tyerman The Siege of Acre, 1189–1191 John D Hosler 37 Hugh Kennedy Crusade and Jihad William R Polk 38 Neil Gregor Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century Konrad Jarausch literary lives 40 Christopher Hart The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life Henry Hitchings 41 Guy Stevenson On Henry Miller: or, How to Be an Anarchist John Burnside 42 Paul Bailey The Hue and Cry At Our House Benjamin Taylor • Returning to Reims Didier Eribon • The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading Edmund White religion 44 Salley Vickers The New Testament David Bentley Hart general 45 D D Guttenplan Reporter: A Memoir Seymour M Hersh 47 Mark Maslin The Wizard and the Prophet Charles C Mann 48 Will Wiles Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World Simon Winchester 50 James Bloodworth Bullshit Jobs: A Theory David Graeber 51 Patrick Scrivenor Yeti: An Abominable History Graham Hoyland birds 52 Philip Womack Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words Jeremy Mynott 53 Nigel Andrew Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds Michael Brooke silenced voices 55 Lucy Popescu on Daphne Caruana Galizia fiction 56 Ben Masters Warlight Michael Ondaatje 57 Sarah Crown The Mars Room Rachel Kushner 58 Adrian Turpin The Shepherd’s Hut Tim Winton 59 Frank Lawton T Singer Dag Solstad 60 Joanna Kavenna Caroline’s Bikini Kirsty Gunn 61 Ian Critchley Rock and Roll is Life D J Taylor 62 Kevin Power Good Trouble Joseph O’Neill 63 Jonathan Barnes The Outsider Stephen King 64 Daniya Baiguzhayeva Florida Lauren Groff 64 Jude Cook A Weekend in New York Benjamin Markovits 65 Paloma van Tol Our Homesick Songs Emma Hooper crime 66 Jessica Mann bookends 72 Adam Douglas 16 Literary Review Bookshop 54 Letters 67 Crossword june 2018 | Literary Review 3

contents mind & body 27 Mick Brown

How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan 29 Anthony Daniels

Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About It James Le Fanu 30 Wendy Moore

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death & Wisdom in an Age of Denial Kathryn Mannix history 31 Jonathan Steinberg

Pogrom: Kishinev & the Tilt of History Steven J Zipperstein 32 John Keay

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War & The End of China’s Last Golden Age Stephen R Platt 34 Blair Worden

In Pursuit of Civility: Manners & Civilization in Early Modern England Keith Thomas 36 Christopher Tyerman

The Siege of Acre, 1189–1191 John D Hosler 37 Hugh Kennedy

Crusade and Jihad William R Polk 38 Neil Gregor

Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century Konrad Jarausch literary lives 40 Christopher Hart

The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life Henry Hitchings 41 Guy Stevenson

On Henry Miller: or, How to Be an Anarchist John Burnside 42 Paul Bailey

The Hue and Cry At Our House Benjamin Taylor • Returning to Reims Didier Eribon • The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading Edmund White religion 44 Salley Vickers

The New Testament David Bentley Hart general 45 D D Guttenplan

Reporter: A Memoir Seymour M Hersh 47 Mark Maslin

The Wizard and the Prophet Charles C Mann 48 Will Wiles

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World Simon Winchester 50 James Bloodworth

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory David Graeber 51 Patrick Scrivenor

Yeti: An Abominable History Graham Hoyland birds 52 Philip Womack

Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words Jeremy Mynott 53 Nigel Andrew

Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds Michael Brooke silenced voices 55 Lucy Popescu on Daphne Caruana Galizia fiction 56 Ben Masters Warlight Michael Ondaatje 57 Sarah Crown The Mars Room Rachel Kushner 58 Adrian Turpin The Shepherd’s Hut Tim Winton 59 Frank Lawton T Singer Dag Solstad 60 Joanna Kavenna Caroline’s Bikini Kirsty Gunn 61 Ian Critchley Rock and Roll is Life D J Taylor 62 Kevin Power Good Trouble Joseph O’Neill 63 Jonathan Barnes The Outsider Stephen King 64 Daniya Baiguzhayeva Florida Lauren Groff 64 Jude Cook A Weekend in New York Benjamin Markovits 65 Paloma van Tol Our Homesick Songs Emma Hooper crime 66 Jessica Mann bookends 72 Adam Douglas

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