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Contents

Vol. 20 No. 4   ·   19 February 1998

Brief Shining Moments

Christopher Hitchens on Donkey Business in the White House

  • Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
  • ‘One Hell of a Gamble’: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-64 by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali
  • The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh
  • Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson , Bobby Kennedy and the Feud that Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol
  • The Year the Dream Died by Jules Witcover
  • Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot by Jerry Zeifman
  • The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis edited by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow
  • Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection edited by David Barrett
  • Taking Charge: The Johnson Whitehouse Tapes 1963-64 edited by Michael Beschloss
  • Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes edited by Stanley Kutler
  • The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Jupiters, 1957-63

‘I was there, I saw it’

Ian Sansom on Ted Hughes

  • Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

Letters

Leonard Pepper, William Flesch, Jian L. Xiao, Jan Bondeson, James Wood, Gabriel Egan, Michael Prior, David Craig, Dipak Nandy, Richard Poole, Nicolas Walter

John Bayley: Papa Joyce

  • John Stanislaus Joyce: The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce’s Father by John Wyse Jackson and Peter Costello

John Sutherland: Mama Trollope

  • Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman by Pamela Neville-Sington

Karl Maier: Feeding off Famine

  • Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa by Alex de Waal
  • The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity by Michael Maren

Paul Foot

  • Gordon Brown: The Biography by Paul Routledge

Ian Aitken

  • The End of Parliamentary Socialism by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

Joseph Frank

  • The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin by Caryl Emerson

Tim Parks hugs a fraud

Zoë Heller: Girl Talk

  • Animal Husbandry by Laura Zigman
  • Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
  • Does My Bum Look Big in This? by Arabella Weir

Anna Swan

  • Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton by Julie Kavanagh

Nicholas Jose

  • Race Matters: Indigenous Australians and ‘Our’ Society edited by Gillian Cowlishaw and Barry Morris
  • Aboriginal Sovereignty: Reflections on Race, State and Nation by Henry Reynolds

Adewale Maja-Pearce: A Night in the Slammer

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Brief Shining Moments
Christopher Hitchens on Donkey Business in the White House

‘I was there, I saw it’
Ian Sansom on Ted Hughes