Contemporary Review

A Little Book of Language

A Little Book of Language by David Crystal is reviewed.

A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar

A. E. Housman: Classical Scholar edited by D. J. Butterfield and C. A. Stray is reviewed.

Alan Clark - Diariast, Mp, and Philanderer

Bridgman reviews Alan Clark: The Biography by Ion Trewin.

Behemoth or the Long Parliament

Behemoth or The Long Parliament by Thomas Hobbes and edited by Paul Seaward is reviewed.

British Coalition Politics and Royal Prerogatives

Nash discusses British Coalition Government, which is formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, and the Royal Prerogative. This is a time of political flux for the UK coping with the Coalition Government formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats after the election in May. Perhaps it has been developing for a long time, but the proposals of the Coalition Government for constitutional change have brought it sharply into focus.

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith is reviewed.

Children of the Gulag

Children of the Gulag by Cathy A. Frierson and Semyon S. Vilensky is reviewed.

Chopin: Prince of the Romantics

Chopin: Prince of the Romantics by Adam Zamoyski is reviewed.

Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made

Churchill's Empire: The World that Made Him and the World He Made by Richard Toye is reviewed.

Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion

Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion by David Lewis-Williams is reviewed.

Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart

Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart by Chris Skidmore is reviewed.

Death of a Great French General: Marcel Bigeard

Singer explores the amazing life of General Marcel Bigeard, who passed away at 94 on June 18, 2010. She tells that Marcel's resembles that of some of Napoleon's marshalls such as Ney or Murat. In the Second World War, he has discovered his true vocation of being an innovative leader in battle wherein he developed effective but controversial tactics for coping with insurgencies first in Vietnam and then in Algeria. Furthermore, Singer reminisces her encounters with the great general.

Death or Victory: The Battle of Quebec and the Birth of Empire

Death or Victory: The Battle of Quebec and the Birth of Empire by Dan Snow is reviewed.

Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War

Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War by Alan Allport is reviewed.

Democracy and Stability

Benner reviews Democracy Kills: What's So Good about Having the Vote? by Humphrey Hawksley.

Dissident Academics and the New Right

Dutton explores the ideas of academic new right, university professors and independent scholars who study European civilization. These academics are interested in the pursuit of truth to the point of intellectual dissent. He says he found them intelligent and think it is important always to challenge the current orthodoxy no matter how much it may upset some people.

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin is reviewed.

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns is reviewed.

Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis

Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis by Anna von der Goltz is reviewed.

India and Central Asia: The Myth-Making and International Relations of a Rising Power

India and Central Asia: The Mythmaking and International Relations of Rising Power by Emilian Kavalski is reviewed.

Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia by Robert Lacey is reviewed.

James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific

James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific is reviewed.

Joseph Severn: A Life. The Rewards of Friendship

Joseph Severn: A Life. The Rewards of Friendship by Sue Brown is reviewed.

Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber

Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber by Leo McKinstry is reviewed.

Material Religion and Popular Culture

Munson reviews Material Religion and Popular Culture by E. Frances King.

Maxime Weygand: A Biography of the French General in Two World Wars

Mullen reviews Maxime Weygand: A Biography of the French General in Two World Wars by Barnett Singer.

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare and edited by Grace Ioppolo is reviewed.

Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory

Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory by Rita Copeland and Ineke Sluiter is reviewed.

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses by Ovid and translated and edited by Charles Martin is reviewed.

Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter

Karwowski reviews Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser.