Review of AMERICA’S GREAT GAME The CIA’s secret Arabists and the shaping of the modern Middle East by Hugh Wilford…
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In No Hurry
Review of House of Stone by Anthony Shadid Granta, 336 pp, £14.99, August 2012, ISBN 978 1 84708 735 5…
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Review of Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel John Murray, 480 pp, £10.99, September 2011, ISBN…
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Review of Patriot of Persia by Christopher de Bellaigue Bodley Head, 310pp, £20
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Review of The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris David McCullogh Simon & Schuster, 560pp, £25 Of all the cities in…
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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…
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In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son Archie’s seventh birthday party failed…
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Review of Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War Two by Ben Macintyre Bloomsbury,…
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Noam Chomsky’s new book, Hopes and Prospects, leads me to a conclusion that will startle his admirers and critics alike:…
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It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street A Jerusalem Memoir. By Emma Williams. Foreword by Brian…
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