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Martin Amis

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Exclusive from the MAY issue:

RETURN OF THE DOG PACK
A contrite neo-con? Michael Burleigh looks at Robert Kagan's latest work.

BUSTING THE MYTH
Forget your rose-tinted view of the Sixties. Dominic Sandbrook judges hippies self-indulgent and thinks the real winners were Ronald Reagan and Maggie Thatcher.

OUT OF THE KOPJE'S SHADOW
Pamela Norris is moved by Doris Lessing's unusual mixture of memoir and fiction.

MOSTLY BRICKS
Adrian Weale reviews a biography of the Bin Laden family.

NO ORDINARY SURVEYOR
Simon Heffer unearths the fascinating life of O G S Crawford: eccentric pioneer of cartography, aerial archaeologist, Marxist and photographic chronicler of 1930s Britain.

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
Ben Macintyre's 'For Your Eyes Only' is published in parallel to the James Bond/Ian Fleming exhibition of the same name at the Imperial War Museum. Tom Fleming reviews this latest book from the author of 'Agent Zigzag'.

Also in the May issue: Edward Luce on the rise of Japan, China and India; Clare Jackson on Trevor-Roper's vision of Scotland; Paul Johnson on the Duke of Marlborough; Giles FitzHerbert on Hugo Chavez; Paul Bew on peace in Northern Ireland; D J Taylor on the Amis family; Sam Leith on Kurt Vonnegut; Allan Massie in Alberto Manguel's library; fiction reviews including Amitav Ghosh, Ismail Kadare, Sebastian Moore, Siri Hustvedt, David Lodge; and much more.