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

Comrades; Rant; South of the River; Walk the Blue Fields; Fusiliers; My Revolutions

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

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

Kate Colquhoun reviews The Great Swim by Gavin Mortimer

Matt Ruff reviews A Life in Pieces by Richard Baer

Lewis Jones reviews The Siege by Ismail Kadare

Jeremy Jehu reviews thrillers

Alastair Sooke reviews The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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

Sameer Rahim remembers a time when academics entertained the masses.

Amanda Craig reviews The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block

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

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 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.