Review is your guide to the world of issues, ideas and opinion. It appears in The Australian Financial Review each Friday.
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15 August 2008 | Mary Beard is professor of classics at the University of Cambridge. Her most recent book is The Roman Triumph, Belknap Press, 2007. NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS | The Australian Financial Review
What makes us laugh and why it has changed over time, by Mary Beard*Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes, by Jim Holt, Norton.* Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 BC to AD 250, by John R Clarke, University of California Press.
15 August 2008 | Charlotte Clutterbuck is a freelance writer and teacher living in Sydney. | The Australian Financial Review
Charlotte Clutterbuck examines a great work of English literature and its authorThe 9th International Milton Symposium was held at the University of London, July 7 - 11
15 August 2008 | Rachel Aspden writes for The Guardian and the New Statesman. NEW STATESMAN | The Australian Financial Review
Rachel Aspden describes the music scene of early 20th century Baghdad*Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted - Baghdad (1925 - 1929) is out now on Honest Jon's Records (UK).
15 August 2008 | Eva Bellin is associate professor of political science at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York. She is the author of Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Par | The Australian Financial Review
Eva Bellin looks at two assessments of Washington's wish to impose democracy in the Middle East*Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy, by Tamara Cofman Wittes
15 August 2008 | Jo-Ann Mort has just spent a month in Israel and Ramallah. She writes frequently about Israeli and Palestinian issues. PROSPECT | The Australian Financial Review
Jo-Ann Mort speculates on a role for Marwan Barghouti
15 August 2008 | Joel Brouwer is the author of the poetry collection Exactly What Happened, Purdue University Press, 1999. He teaches at the University of Alabama. WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD | The Australian Financial Review
Joel Brouwer on the lives of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Higginson*White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, by Brenda Wineapple
15 August 2008 | Thomas de Waal is a London-based journalist and writer who worked in Moscow in the 1990s. WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD | The Australian Financial Review
Thomas de Waal on the murder of Alexander Litvinenko*The Terminal Spy: A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal, and Murder, by Alan S Cowell, Doubleday.
15 August 2008 | Daniel Stashower is the author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder, Dutton, 2006. WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD | The Australian Financial Review
When war and forgery collided, by Daniel Stashower*The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century, by Edward Dolnick, Harper.
The US appears to be putting its houses - Fannie and Freddie - in order, writes Glenn Mumford.
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