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Exclusive from the August issue:

LIVING WITH NEGATIVE CAPABILITY
John Gray admires Richard Holloway's skill in navigating a sceptical course between the fundamentalism of both the godly and the godless.

TAKING ON THE TURK
The Siege of Vienna in 1683 was a crucial moment in the history of Europe. Roger Crowley plunges into the decisive battle between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.

THE "ME" IN MEDIA
Melanie Phillips holds up a mirror to the very willing gaze of our narcissistic, celebrity-obsessed culture.

CAN YOU DROP A KINDLE IN THE BATH?
Kathryn Hughes on e-readers: should we Kindle our books?

BRICK VS BRILL
Alan Rafferty on the latest work from Paul Auster.

Also in the August issue: Dominic Sandbrook on the Spin corporation; John Cornwell on the brain's plasticity; Patrick Hennessey, who served in Afghanistan, on A Million Bullets; John Adamson on Charles II's Long Parliament; Donald Rayfield on Yezhov, Stalin's 'Little Bramble'; Jonathan Sumption on political trials; Sara Wheeler on a Maori in Massachusetts; Jane Ridley on Ettie Desborough; Francis King on the Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald; the Korean War; China's many faces; birds; fishing; fiction; and much more.