Category Archives: reviews

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Toward the end of 2010, a small book by a 93-year-old man unexpectedly reached the summit of the bestseller list…

In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son Archie’s seventh birthday party failed…

Review of Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War Two by Ben Macintyre Bloomsbury,…

Noam Chomsky’s new book, Hopes and Prospects, leads me to a conclusion that will startle his admirers and critics alike:…

It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street A Jerusalem Memoir. By Emma Williams. Foreword by Brian…

Review of England’s Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin Smith Weidenfeld, 490 pp, £25.00, July 2009, ISBN…

* 1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem by Uri Avnery, translated by Christopher Costello * Israel’s Vicious…

“The war between George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden defeated both of its protagonists,” says Gilles Kepel in his…

Wilton’s Music Hall 11 Dec – 10 Jan 2009 The Royal Shakespeare Company’s felicitous selection of Wilton’s Music Hall in…

The Richmond Theatre 30 April – 5 May 2007 Following Aida’s premier in Cairo in December 1871, Verdi wrote, “This…