From the March 2020 Issue The Great Thaw The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the end of the Cold War By Archie Brown LR
From the July 2018 Issue Will China Rule the Waves? Asian Waters: The Struggle over the Asia-Pacific and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion By Humphrey Hawksley LR
From the June 2018 Issue The Greatest Game Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist By Justin Vaïsse (Translated by Catherine Porter) On Grand Strategy By John Lewis Gaddis LR
From the November 2017 Issue All Tomorrow’s Battles The Future of War: A History By Lawrence Freedman LR
From the August 2014 Issue Fighting Fit War: What Is It Good for? The Role of Conflict in Civilisation, from Primates to Robots By Ian Morris LR
From the December 2010 Issue Do The Right Thing Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq By John Dower LR
From the May 2010 Issue Force For The Good Moral Combat: A History of World War II By Michael Burleigh LR
From the April 2010 Issue History’s Crooked Lives The Legacy of the Second World War By John Lukacs LR
From the August 2008 Issue A Sour War The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War By David Halberstam LR
From the August 2007 Issue They Deserved Each Other Nixon: The Invincible Quest By Conrad Black Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power By Robert Dallek LR
From the July 2007 Issue How to Fight a Cold War George Kennan: A Study in Character By John Lukacs LR
From the June 2007 Issue Tipping Points Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940–1941 By Ian Kershaw LR
From the June 2006 Issue Alibis of Aggression The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred By Niall Ferguson LR
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Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art.
@StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at.
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Stephen Smith: Art of Rebellion - Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
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‘I have fond memories of discussing Lorca and the state of Andalusian theatre with Antonio Banderas as Lauren Bacall sat on the dressing-room couch.’
@henryhitchings on Simon Russell Beale.
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Henry Hitchings: The Play’s the Thing - A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare & Other Stories by Simon Russell Beale
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We are saddened to hear of the death of Fredric Jameson.
Here, from 1983, is Terry Eagleton’s review of The Political Unconscious.
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Terry Eagleton: Supermarket of the Mind - The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act by Fredric Jameson
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