FEBRUARY 2007

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THE WORLDLY EDITH WHARTON

Tennessee Williams’s Journal ★★ Beaumarchais’s Seville Hitchcock’s Music ★★ More Mitford Letters

Jonathan Keates on Garibaldi Paul Johnson on Talleyrand Anne Somerset on Cromwell Leslie Mitchell on Walpole

INTERVIEW WITH DORIS LESSING

The Adventures of Leo Africanus The Great War in Africa The Books We Take to War

HOW TO LIVE FOREVER

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FICTION: Norman Mailer ★★ Irène Némirovsky ★★ Walter Mosley ★★ Rachel Seiffert