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Edward Skidelsky reviews Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten 20th Century by Tony Judt

Peter Parker reviews Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia

Captain W E Johns's unfashionable hero deserves to soar again, says Neil Clark

Tim Martin welcomes the forthcoming online discussion of Anthony Powell's roman- fleuve, and suggests some alternatives.

Rowan Williams reviews Terror and Consent: the Wars for the 21st Century by Philip Bobbitt

Kate Colquhoun reviews The Great Swim by Gavin Mortimer

Sky Arts is the only channel which has a programme devoted to books As its presenter heads to the Hay-on-Wye literary festival, she talks to Jane Schilling about the arts of reading - and listening

Matt Ruff reviews A Life in Pieces by Richard Baer

Lewis Jones reviews The Siege by Ismail Kadare

Peter Stanford reviews A Good Day For A Dog by Carlo Gébler

Jeremy Jehu reviews thrillers

Alastair Sooke reviews The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Amanda Craig reviews The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block

Sameer Rahim remembers a time when academics entertained the masses.

Daniel Hannan reviews Hugo!: the Hugo Chávez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution by Bart Jones

In The Times Megan Walsh and Caroline White have assembled The 30 best books festivals in the British Isles: the definitive 2008 guide -- and it really is pretty useful.

In The Guardian Stuart Kelly thinks all the Scottish cheer-leading and patting-themselves-on-back is getting to be a bit much.

The New Yorker leaps into the literary weblog fray with the promising-looking The Book Bench.

In Chasing the printed word in The Age Jane Sullivan finds that: Australian literature is a strange market. You can't buy new copies of some of our most revered and loved books for love or money: they are as rare