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contents july 2018 • issue 466 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 | july 2018 2 diary 5 D J Taylor france 6 Richard Vinen A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle Julian Jackson 8 Jonathan Meades Re volution Française: Emmanuel Macron & the Quest to Reinvent a Nation Sophie Pedder 10 Glenn Ric hardson Francis I: The Maker of Modern France Leonie Frieda 11 N eil Armstrong Notes from the Cévennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France Adam Thorpe biography 12 Richard V Reeves Adam Smith: What He Thought, & Why It Matters Jesse Norman 14 P eter Thonemann Nemesis: Alcibiades & the Fall of Athens David Stuttard 15 Mir anda Seymour Lady M: The Lives & Loves of Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne 1751–1818 Colin Brown 17 Angus Hawkins Lor d Liverpool: A Political Life William Anthony Hay 18 F rank McLynn The Indian World of George Washington Colin G Calloway 20 Daniel Matlin The N ew Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Jeffrey C Stewart art 22 Susan Owens The Royal Academy of Arts: History & Collections Robin Simon with Mary Anne Stevens (edd) 24 C lare Griffiths Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings & Three-Dimensional Works Toby Treves history 26 Adrian Tinniswood White King: Charles I Leanda de Lisle 27 Jason P earl Memoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond, 1748–1775 George E Boulukos (ed)
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contents 28 Robert Irwin Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia Jürgen Osterhammel 30 Jo hn Man The History of Central Asia, Volume Four: The Age of Decline & Revival Christoph Baumer literary lives 31 David Wheatley The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien Maebh Long (ed) 33 Ke vin Jackson The Ink Trade: Selected Journalism 1961–1993 Anthony Burgess foreign parts 34 Jurek Martin The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House Ben Rhodes 36 O liver Balch The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age James Crabtree 37 S imon Heffer On Germany Giles MacDonogh 38 C hristopher Coker Asian Waters: The Struggle over the Asia-Pacific & the Strategy of Chinese Expansion Humphrey Hawksley fashion 39 Shahidha Bari Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men & the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World Peter McNeil 40 C harlotte Bolland Tudor Fashion: Dress at Court Eleri Lynn 41 R amita Navai Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress Elizabeth Bucar general 43 Richard Norton-Taylor Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, & the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy Rory Cormac 45 Mar tin Vander Weyer Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking & the Regulatory State Paul Tucker 46 Julianne Sc hultz The Empire’s New Clothes: The Myth of the Commonwealth Philip Murphy 47 W illiam Brodrick In Your Defence: Stories of Life & Law Sarah Langford 49 S ara Wheeler Natural Causes: Life, Death & the Illusion of Control Barbara Ehrenreich 50 David Bodanis The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine & Spain, 1922–1923 Ze’ev Rosenkranz (ed) fiction 53 Pamela Norris Clock Dance Anne Tyler 54 L ucian Robinson My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh 55 Adr ian Nathan West Oreo Fran Ross 56 Cat riona Ward Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense Joyce Carol Oates 57 S uzi Feay Days of Awe A M Homes 58 Dec lan Ryan Asymmetry Lisa Halliday 59 Elisa S egrave Story of a Marriage Geir Gulliksen 60 Ian Cr itchley So Much Life Left Over Louis de Bernières 61 Imogen W oodberry Testament Kim Sherwood children’s books 62 Philip Womack on nine new books crime 64 Jessica Mann on seven new novels 65 S tephen Bates Conan Doyle for the Defence Margalit Fox silenced voices 66 Lucy Popescu on Galal El-Behairy & Wael Abbas bookends 72 Christopher Fletcher on auto-destructive books 26 Liter ary Review Bookshop 52 Letters 52 Crossword july 2018 | Literary Review 3

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contents july 2018 • issue 466

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.

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diary 5 D J Taylor france 6 Richard Vinen

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle Julian Jackson 8 Jonathan Meades

Re volution Française: Emmanuel Macron & the Quest to Reinvent a Nation Sophie Pedder 10 Glenn Ric hardson

Francis I: The Maker of Modern France Leonie Frieda 11 N eil Armstrong

Notes from the Cévennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France Adam Thorpe biography 12 Richard V Reeves

Adam Smith: What He Thought, & Why It Matters Jesse Norman 14 P eter Thonemann

Nemesis: Alcibiades & the Fall of Athens David Stuttard 15 Mir anda Seymour

Lady M: The Lives & Loves of Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne 1751–1818 Colin Brown 17 Angus Hawkins

Lor d Liverpool: A Political Life William Anthony Hay 18 F rank McLynn

The Indian World of George Washington Colin G Calloway 20 Daniel Matlin

The N ew Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Jeffrey C Stewart art 22 Susan Owens

The Royal Academy of Arts: History & Collections Robin Simon with Mary Anne Stevens (edd) 24 C lare Griffiths

Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings & Three-Dimensional Works Toby Treves history 26 Adrian Tinniswood

White King: Charles I Leanda de Lisle 27 Jason P earl

Memoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond, 1748–1775 George E Boulukos (ed)

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