Responsable Book Review Editor Mireille QUIVY mireille.quivy@univ-rouen.fr Université de Rouen

U—V—W   U John Updike, Seek My Face (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)—Lisa Rull John Updike, The Early Stories: 1953-1975 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2004)—Kristiaan Versluys John Updike, Villages (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2004)—Gerardo Del Guercio, Independent researcher, Canada. John Updike, Terrorist  (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2006)—Sylvie Mathé, Université Aix-Marseille I, France. Barry Unsworth, The Songs of the Kings (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2002)—Michael Langan   V Anna Vaninskaya, William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 (Edinburgh: Press, 2010)—Reviewed by Peter Faulkner, University of Exeter   Christine van Boheemen-Saaf, Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the Trauma of History: Reading, Narrative, and Postcolonialism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)—Marie-Dominique Garnier, University of Paris 8, France. Robert D. Van Valin Jr., Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Cambridge: CUP, 2005)—Olivier Simonin, Universities of Paris 13 & Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV, France. Helen Vendler, ed., The Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003)—Joanny Moulin Hugo Vickers, Cecil Beaton: The Authorised Biography (London: Phoenix Press, 2002)—Michael Langan Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World (London: Hamish Hamilton /Penguin, 2002) — Georges-Claude Guilbert   W Cynthia Wachtell, War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010)—Reviewed by Claire Parfait, Université Paris 13 George Walden, Who's a Dandy? (London: Gibson Square Books, 2002)—Gilbert Pham-Thanh Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens (New York: Harcourt, 2003, $15.00, 397 pages, ISBN 0-15-602864-6)—Susan Ballyn, Universitat de Barcelona Rebecca Walker, ed., What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future (New York: Riverhead Books, 2004)—Andrew Shail Rob Walker, micromacro (West Lakes (Australia): Seaview Press, 2006); phobiaphobia (Warners Bay (Australia): Picaro Press, 2007). Peter Lloyd, Tales from the Labyrinth / The Stone Ladder (Adelaide (Australia): Wakefield Press, 2008). David Adès, Mapping the World (Adelaide (Australia): Wakefield Press, 2008)—Reviewed by Joanny Moulin, Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I  William Walker. ‘Paradise Lost’ and the Republican Tradition from Aristotle to Machiavelli (Turnhout / Tournai : Brepols, 2009)—Reviewed by Freyja Cox Jensen, Christ Church, Oxford Gregory A. Waller, Moviegoing in America (Oxford & Malden: Blackwell, 2002)—Dominique Sipière Peter J. Wallison, Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of his Presidency (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2004)—Kevin Matthews Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America (Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001)—Georges-Claude Guilbert Kenneth W. Warren, So Black and Blue, Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism (Chicago, The University of ChicagoPress, 2003)—Jacques Coulardeau Wendy Wasserstein, Sloth (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, $17.95, 114 pages, ISBN 0-19-516630-2)—Donald P. Gagnon,WesternConnecticut StateUniversity Jeremy W. Webster, Performing Libertinism in Charles II’s Court: Politics, Drama, Sexuality (York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)—Jean-Philippe Heberlé, University of Nancy 2, France. David Welky. The Moguls and the Dictators : Hollywood and the Coming of World War II.  (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2008) — André Kaenel, Université de Nancy-II Marilyn C. Wesley, Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2003)—Chris Bell Cornel West, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (New York: The Penguin Press, 2004)—Chris Bell Karl-Heinz Westarp, Precision and Depth in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert Edith Wharton, Sanctuary (Philadelphia: Pine Street Books, 2001)—James Friel Edith Wharton, Les Metteurs en scène (Paris: Michel Houdiard éditeur, 2001); Edith Wharton, Lettres à l’ami français. Correspondance établie et présentée par Claudine Lesage (Paris : Michel Houdiard éditeur, 2001)—Philippe Romanski Edmund White, Fanny: A Fiction (London: Chatto & Windus 2003)—Georgina Lock Margaret Isabel White, Daisy in Exile: The Diary of an Australian School Girl in France 1887–1889, Translated by Marc Serge Rivière and introduced by Judith White (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2003)—Susan Ballyn Shane White, Stories of Freedom in Black New York (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002)—David McBride Lana Whited, ed., The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives in a Literary Phenomenon (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002 (hardback)—Cher Holt-Fortin Tom Wicker, George Herbert Walker Bush (New York: Viking, 2004, $19.95, 228 pages, ISBN 0-670-03303-0)—Stefano Luconi,University ofFlorence Christine Wiesenthal, The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther (University of Toronto Press, 2005)—Claire Omhovère, University of Nancy II, France Min Wild, Christopher Smart and Satire:  ‘Mary Midnight’ and the Midwife (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008)—Reviewed by Sophie Soccard, Université du Maine (Le Mans) Michael Wilding & David Myers, eds., Best Stories Under the Sun, (Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press, 2004, AUD$25.95, 186 pages, ISBN 1-876780-58-4)—Susan Ballyn, Universitat de Barcelona Simon Winlow, Badfellas: Crime, Traditions and New Masculinities ( Oxford & New York: Berg, 2001)—Philippe Chassaigne Hana Wirth-Nesher & Michael P. Kramer, eds., The Cambridge Companion To Jewish American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)—Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet Alan Wolfe, The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003/2005, $16.00, 320 pages, ISBN 0-226-90518-7)—Emmanuelle Le Texier, Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III Elizabeth L. Wollman, The Theater Will Rock. A History of the Rock Musical from Hair to Hewig (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2006)—Claude Chastagner, University of Montpellier, France. Carol Wolper, Mr. Famous (New York: Riverhead, 2004, $24.95, 260 pages, ISBN 1-57322-272-0)—Charles Holdefer, Université de Poitiers Kenneth Womack, ed., The Cambridge Companion to The Beatles (Cambridge: University Press, 2009) Reviewed by Claude Chastagner, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier III Gordon S. Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (New York: The Penguin Press, 2004)—Robert Sayre Michael Wood, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2005)—Marie-Dominique Garnier, University of Paris VIII, France Michael Woodiwiss, Organized Crime and American Power: A History (Toronto & London: University of Toronto Press, 2001); Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2001); Romain Huret, Le Crime organisé à la ville et à l’écran 1929-1951 (Neuilly : Atlante, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway's Party, Edited, with an introduction, by Stella McNichol (Orlando: Harcourt, 2004)—Christine Reynier Roger Woolhouse, Locke. A Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)—Robert Mankin, University of Paris-Diderot, France. Robert Worcester, Roger Mortimore & Paul Baines, Explaining Labour’s Landslip: The 2005 General Election (London: Politico’s, 2005, £20.00, 377 pages, ISBN 1842751468)—Nicholas Deakin, London School of Economics Bradford W. Wright, Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 [revised 2003])—Megan O’Neill Eric Wright, The Hemingway Caper (Toronto, Canada: Dundurn Press, 2003)—Gregory McCormick Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (London: Flamingo / HarperCollins, 2001)—Joelle M. d’Entremont Chris Wrigley, Winston Churchill: A Biographical Companion (Santa Barbara, Denver & Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2002)— Antoine Capet Alun Wyburn-Powell, Clement Davies: Liberal Leader (London: Politico’s, 2003)—Antoine Capet Bill Wyman, with Richard Havers, Rolling with the Stones (London: Dorling Kindersley, 2002)—Claude Chastagner Ben Wynne (ed.), The Personal Observations of a Man of Intelligence: Notes of a Tour in North America in 1861 by Sir James Fergusson (Lamberville, NJ: The True Bill Press. ISBN-10:09791116-3-3) Reviewed by Gérard Hugues, University de Provence – Aix-Marseille I