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9 February 2008


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To justify the ways of God to man
Milton: poet, pamphleteer and patriot Free Article
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 Free Article
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 Free Article
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 Free Article
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 Free Article
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 Free Article
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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