Book reviewed in this issue

To justify the ways of God to man
Milton: poet, pamphleteer and patriot
Anna Beer
Reviewed by Robert Nye

American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Reviewed by John Cornwell

Honor in Foreign Policy: a history and discussion
Michael Donelan
Reviewed by David Goodall

Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England: Robert Persons’ Jesuit polemic, 1580-1610
Victor Houliston
Reviewed by James Kelly

The Song of Bernadette: the immortal story of Bernadette of Lourdes
Franz Werfel (trans. Ludwig Lewisohn)
Reviewed by Rima Devereaux

Previous weeks reviews

Austere man of action and intellect
John Stuart Mill: Victorian firebrand
Richard Reeves
Reviewed by John Cottingham

Earls of Paradise: England and the dream of perfection
Adam Nicolson
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

The Memory Room
Christopher Koch
Reviewed by Andy Bull

The Last Supper
Philip Willan
Reviewed by John Phillips

Lilian Baylis: a biography
Elizabeth Schafer
Reviewed by John Amis

The seeds of genesis and creation
Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion
Francisco J. Ayala
Reviewed by Ernan McMullin

The Home We Build Together: recreating society
Jonathan Sacks
Reviewed by David Martin

Saints in the Landscape
Graham Jones
Reviewed by Michael Walsh

John Paul II’s Book of Saints
Matthew and Margaret Bunson
Reviewed by Michael Walsh

The End and the Beginning
Sister Giles
Reviewed by Christopher Herdon

The Nature of Biblical Criticism
John Barton
Reviewed by Nicholas King

No Place for God: the denial of the transcendent in modern church architecture
Moyra Doorly
Reviewed by Patrick Reyntiens

Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England c. 600-900
Sarah Foot
Reviewed by Nicholas Vincent

The Book of Psalms
Robert Alter
Reviewed by Theo Hobson

Fruitful tension of extremes
Head and Heart: American Christianities
Garry Wills
Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh

Enslaved: the new British slavery
Rahila Gupta
Reviewed by Paul Donovan

Britain’s Lost Cities
Gavin Stamp
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
Nadine Gordimer
Reviewed by Daniel Jeffreys

Kipling Sahib: India and the making of Rudyard Kipling
Charles Allen
Reviewed by Mark Tully

Eagles’ nest in a tin hut
Birds, Bees and Beasts
John Bradburne (ed. David Crystal)
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Christianity and the Secular
Robert A. Markus
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr

Out of Breath
Julie Myerson
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Algeria: anger of the dispossessed
Martin Evans and John Phillips
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer

Poet as a ‘country healer’
The Letters of Ted Hughes
Selected and edited by Christopher Reid
Reviewed by Robert Nye

The Second Crusade: extending the frontiers of Christendom
Jonathan Phillips
Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith

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