Published in volume 27, No.7 of the London Review of Books, March 2005. – What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman Princeton, 154 pp, £12.95, November 2004, ISBN 0 691 12179 6 – Blinded by the Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib and Saddam’s Iraq by Matthew McAllester Harper […]
Article first published in The Guardian on 8 January 2005. Four new biographies suggest that the more we write about Alexander the Great, the less we understand him. Alexander the Great: The Death of a God by Paul Doherty 256pp, Constable, £17.99 Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past by Paul Cartledge 384pp, […]
First published in the London Review of Books, July 2000. Caleb held a bundle of arrows in his left hand and a bow and single arrow in his right. His mother was holding her torn ears between her thumbs and forefingers. Her chin was on her bare chest. Her legs were coated with grey mud. […]