AUGUST 2006

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DONNE AND THE MILK OF DIVINITY Robert Nye on a Reformed Soul

Adam Sisman on Southey Peter Washington on RSThomas Katey Dickens ★★ Shakespeare’s Circle ★★ HPLovecraft

Simon Heffer inspects the Prussians Adam LeBor joins the Hungarian Uprising Jonathan Mirsky takes the High Road to China

DIRTYDIPLOMACY: Craig Murray in Uzbekistan

Victorian Pleasures ★★ Aristocratic Antics All That Jazz ★★ All About Albania

FICTION: Updike ★★ Thiong’o ★★ Welsh ★★ O’Hagan ★★ Ozick ★★ O’Farrell ★★ Jacobson