March 2016 Issue Stoddard Martin Writers’ Retreat Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 By Volker Weidermann (Translated by Carol Brown Janeway)
November 2007 Issue Brenda Maddox On the Stein Trail Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice By Janet Malcolm LR
April 2012 Issue Andrew Hussey Oulipotastic Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature By Daniel Levin Becker LR
February 2005 Issue Henrietta Garnett Arbitrators of the Mind The Strachey Family By Barbara Caine LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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David Abulafia: Legends of the Phantom Rider - El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary by Nora Berend
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