Book reviewed in this issue

Flourishing conditions for terror
Descent into Chaos: how the war against Islamic extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer

Women as Bishops
Ed. James Rigney with Mark D. Chapman
Reviewed by Theo Hobson

Country of the Grand
Gerard Donovan
Reviewed by Rose Gaete

Semi-Invisible Man: the life of Norman Lewis
Julian Evans
Reviewed by Michael Barber

Previous weeks reviews

Ever attentive to grace
The Duty of Delight: the diaries of Dorothy Day
Robert Ellsberg
Reviewed by James Martin

The Prodigal Tongue
Mark Abley
Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth

Novel About My Wife
Emily Perkins
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

What Do Catholics Believe?
Léonie Caldecott
Reviewed by Francesca Murphy

Two Cures for Love
Wendy Cope
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Collected Poems
Anthony Thwaite
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Selected Poems
Wallace Stevens
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Selected poems
Allen Ginsberg
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Selected Poems
Edwin Muir
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Selected Poems
Eileen Ni Chuilleanain
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Fragments against ruins
Reading David Jones
Thomas Dilworth
Reviewed by Fernando Cervantes

Madresfield
Jane Mulvagh
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly

A Long Retreat: in search of a religious life
Andrew Krivak
Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh

Dinny Going Down
Desmond O\'Grady
Reviewed by John Philips

Theology's steadfast questioner
Disputed Truth: memoirs II
Hans Küng
Reviewed by John Wilkins

Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922
Giles Milton
Reviewed by Bruce Clark

Alfred and Emily
Doris Lessing
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Imprimatur
Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti
Reviewed by David McLaurin

The Blackest Streets: the life and death of a Victorian slum
Sarah Wise
Reviewed by Brian Morton

Medieval Architectural Drawing
Arnold Pacey
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

John Betjeman on Churches
Jonathan Glancey
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Poetry’s serious endeavour
Geoffrey Hill: collected critical writings
Ed. Kenneth Haynes
Reviewed by John Casey

Seeking Meaning and Making Sense
John Haldane
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

The Church and the World
John Haldane
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Beijing Coma
Ma Jian
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

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