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Angela Merkel's mobile phone is her instrument of power.

A Cold War Chill

'Angela Merkel's mobile phone is her instrument of power. What happens when this tool of democracy is subverted by our most important ally?'
November 26, 2013
Their Own Worst Enemies

Their Own Worst Enemies

Jonathan Schanzer’s State of Failure persuasively argues that Palestine is not a country or state but a cause with the sole intention of destroying the Jews
November 25, 2013
Liberty Here, Tyranny There

Liberty Here, Tyranny There

The apologetics over John Stuart Mill’s shocking attitudes towards foreigners is the only thing that lets down Georgios Varouxakis’s otherwise excellent study of the political philosopher You can make a passable case
November 25, 2013
A new expanded edition of E.

Both Ancient and Avant-Garde

A new expanded edition of E.E. Cummings’s Collected Poems demonstrates that, despites his brief sojourns in the avant-garde, the poet always found his way to a profound simplicity A terrible crisis has
November 25, 2013
He hates meaningless obscurity and a failure of logic in poems, and finds these faults in a great many of them.

A Visit From the Ofpoe Inspector

Craig Raine’s collected essays, More Dynamite, is a collection that blows holes in fellow poets’ work, and ends leaving the poetry landscape very battered and bleak Craig Raine has a passionate love
November 25, 2013
Two new books about reading are polar opposites.

The Bibliophile and the Bore

Two new books about reading are polar opposites. Alexander McCall Smith's musings are platitudinous while Nick Hornby reads like someone you’d love to chat with until the sun came up
November 25, 2013
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