AUGUST 2007

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HIS DARK MATERIALS Philip Pullman on his Moral Compass

Max Egremont at the Front David Gilmour on Partition The Last Thousand Days of Empire

Pugin’s Revival ★★ Pepys’s Nemesis Conrad’s Masks ★★ Grass’s Memoirs

The July Monarchy ★★ The Nixon Presidency The Birth of Italy

Jane Ridley salutes the Spinsters Locke’s Laundry ★★ Mrs Woolf’s Staff Too Posh to Wash?

FICTION: Hari Kunzru ★★ Amy Bloom ★★ Robert Edric ★★ Gary Shteyngart ...