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This week's issue of the TLS

Roman art thieves Was art in ancient times always plundered art? Mary Beard looks at the evidence - most of it, as ever, written by the victors.

New Labour Cicero Robert Harris's new novel tells of an ancient Rome that sounds suspiciously like Westminster in the 1990s; Peter Stothard applauds an account of interesting times.

Space travel, but not as we know it Iain Banks's latest piece of science fiction, Michael Kerrigan finds, has an infinite reach across time and space, but is held together by an old-fashioned moral vision. In the rest of the paper, you will find the later Philip K. Dick, the apocryphal Federico García Lorca, the revolutionary friendship of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, and, last but not least, In Brief.