London Review of Books * A Life of Picasso, Vol. III: The Triumphant Years 1917-32 by John 2008 – 30:1 Richardson
Articles Gloomy/Cheerful
What I Didn’t Do in 2007 Tom Shippey on Norse mythology
Alan Bennett’s year * From Asgard to Valhalla: The Letters Remarkable History of the Norse Myths by Heather O’Donoghue Max Zweig, Joel Berglund, David Graeber, Sam Abrams, Simon Cape of Mad Hope Blackburn, Jerry Coyne, Philip Kitcher, Tim Lewens and Steven Rose, Jerry Neal Ascherson on the Darien disaster Fodor, Sheldon Litt, Richard McClean, James Valentine, Nazir Dhoki * The Price of Scotland: Darien, Cityphilia Union and the Wealth of Nations by Douglas Watt John Lanchester on the credit crunch Marvellous Money Short Cuts
Michael Wood: Eça de Queirós Adam Shatz: Condoleezza Rice subscriber-only content Brown and * The Maias: Episodes from Romantic Friends Life by José Maria Eça de Queirós, translated by Margaret Jull Costa David Runciman: Brown and Friends subscriber-only content Success and A Man with My Trouble James Maxton
Colm Tóibín: Henry James leaves home Inigo Thomas: Success and James Maxton * The Complete Letters of Henry subscriber-only content In Your Guts James, 1855-72: Volume I edited by You Know He’s Nuts Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias Thomas Sugrue on Barry Goldwater * The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-72: Volume II edited by * The Conscience of a Conservative Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias by Barry Goldwater
Bon Viveur in Cuban Heels Poem: ‘Day Off’
Julian Bell on Picasso Jorie Graham Baggy and Thin
Susan Eilenberg: Annie Dillard
* The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
Loot, Looter, Looted
Peter Howarth: John Haynes
* Letter to Patience by John Haynes
77 Barton Street
Dave Haslam on Joy Division
* Juvenes: The Joy Division Photographs of Kevin Cummins * Joy Division: Piece by Piece by Paul Morley * Control directed by Anton Corbijn (0000)
At the British Museum
Craig Clunas on the Terracotta Army Diary
Ben Anderson in Afghanistan
London Review of Books David Hollinger: God and Politics 2008 – 30:2 * The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics Articles and the Modern West by Mark Lilla
That Wilting Flower Three Poems
Hilary Mantel: The Lure of the Hugo Williams Unexplained At the National Gallery
* Chambers Dictionary of the Peter Campbell: Good Enough to Eat Unexplained edited by Una McGovern Coruscating on Thin Ice
Letters Terry Eagleton: The Divine Spark
Martha Roth, Alan Myers, Charles * Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins Turner, Anthony Rudolf, Glenn Lang, by Peter Conrad Slavoj Žižek, Ross McKibbin, Stephen Sasse, Eamonn Grogan, Rob Best, John Short Cuts Gretton, Ben Bollig, Valentin Lyubarsky, Donal Ó Drisceoil, Cliff Thomas Jones: Blogged Down Hawkins, Robert Berold subscriber-only content Red Flowers, at a Wedding? Not a Pretty Sight Tessa Hadley on Claire Keegan Jenny Diski: Who Are You Calling Ugly? * Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan * On Ugliness edited by Umberto Eco Reading with No Clothes on Living It Michael Hofmann: Guernsey’s Bard Andrew O’Hagan: The World of Andy McNab * The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards * Crossfire by Andy McNab * Strike Back by Chris Ryan When We Were Nicer
Praise Yah Steven Mithen: History Seen as Neurochemistry Eliot Weinberger on the Psalms * On Deep History and the Brain by * The Book of Psalms: A Translation Daniel Lord Smail with Commentary by Robert Alter Separation Anxiety Poem: ‘Really’
Robert Crawford At the Polling Station in Kibera
Daniel Branch: The Elections in Kenya The Project
O.A. Westad: The Downtrodden Majority
* The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad
At the Movies
Michael Wood on ‘Lust, Caution’
* Lust, Caution directed by Ang Lee (2007)
The Ghostwriter’s Story
James Sanders: Colombia’s History of Violence
* Evil Hour in Colombia by Forrest Hylton
Iran’s Bomb: A Revision
Norman Dombey: Iran’s Bomb: A Revision Diary
Eric Hobsbawm: Memories of Weimar
London Review of Books The Ticking Fear
2008 – 30:3 John Kerrigan on Louis MacNeice
Articles * Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems edited by Peter McDonald Who was he? * Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems edited by Michael Longley Charles Nicholl: Joe the Ripper * I Crossed the Minch by Louis MacNeice * The Fox and the Flies: The World of * The Strings Are False: An Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath Unfinished Autobiography by Louis by Charles van Onselen MacNeice, edited by E.R. Dodds
Letters With Slip and Slapdash
Augustus Young, Andreas Wesemann, Frank Kermode: Auden’s Prose W.G. Runciman, George Poles, Michael Goldsmith, Sean Gallagher, John * The Complete Works of W.H. Sutherland, Philip Booth Auden. Vol. III: Prose, 1949-55 edited This Way to the Ruin by Edward Mendelson
David Runciman on the British ‘Derek, please, not so fast’ Constitution Ferdinand Mount on Derek Jackson
* The British Constitution by Anthony * As I Was Going to St Ives: A Life of King Derek Jackson by Simon Courtauld
Disaffiliate, Reaffiliate, Kill Again Short Cuts
Jeremy Harding: Régis Debray Daniel Soar on the Arts Council Wall of Ice * Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography by Régis Debray, Peter Thonemann: Pattison’s translated by John Howe Scholarship
Gaza’s Future * Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Henry Siegman: Breaching the Barrier Invention of the Don by H.S. Jones Planes, Trains and SUVs Who has the biggest books? Jonathan Raban on James Meek Craig Clunas: Missionaries in China * We Are Now Beginning Our Descent by James Meek
* Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 by Liam Matthew Brockey
At the Royal Academy
Peter Campbell: From Russia Rolling Back the Reformation
Eamon Duffy: Bloody Mary’s Church Floating Medicine Chests
Steven Shapin on the Dutch East India Company
* Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold Cook
Warp Speed
Frank Close: Gravitational Waves
* Travelling at the Speed of Thought: Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves by Daniel Kennefick
The Eagle and the Beetle
Jean de La Fontaine The Next Fix
Lara Pawson: African Oil
* Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson * Oil Wars edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Lynn Karl and Yahia Said * Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil by John Ghazvinian
Diary Alison Light: In Portsmouth
London Review of Books * City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek 2008 – 30:4 Lives in Roman Egypt by Peter Parsons
Articles A, E , C, B
Ordained as a Nation Paul Driver: Robert Schumann
Pankaj Mishra: Exporting Democracy * Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician by John Worthen * The Wilsonian Moment: Self- * The Cambridge Companion to Determination and the International Schumann edited by Beate Perrey Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by * Schumann’s Late Style by Laura Erez Manela Tunbridge
Letters At the Movies
Karon Monaghan, Jenny Chamier Michael Wood: ‘No Country for Old Grove, Malcolm Deas, Robert Steele, Men’ Ian Birchall, Chris Sinha, Eric Hobsbawm, Eric Dickens, Michael Hill, * No Country for Old Men directed by Martin Ward, Ted McFadyen, Hugh Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2008) Wright, Natalie Matter Friendly Fire Pretty Letters
Bernard Porter: Torching the White Megan Marshall: The Death of Edgar House Allan Poe
* Fusiliers: Eight Years with the * Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Redcoats in America by Mark Urban Ackroyd * 1812: War with America by Jon Latimer What Life Says to Us
Poem: ‘Glamourie’ Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley
Kathleen Jamie * The Collected Poems of Robert Mr Big & Co Creeley: 1945-75 * The Collected Poems of Robert Denis Feeney: Roman Victory! Creeley: 1975-2005 * On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay * The Roman Triumph by Mary Beard by Robert Creeley * Selected Poems: 1945-2005 by Glorious and Most Glorious City of the Robert Creeley, edited by Benjamin Oxyrhinchites Friedlander
Christopher Kelly on Roman Egypt Short Cuts * A Godly Hero: The Life of William Hugh Pennington: Bluetongue Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin Drowned in Eau de Vie Diary Modris Eksteins: New, Fast and Modern Richard Gott: Paraguayan Power * Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay
Poem: ‘Signs of the Times’
Mark Ford Snapshotism
Mary Ann Caws: Picabia's Dada
* I Am a Beautiful Monster by Francis Picabia, translated by Marc Lowenthal * The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris by George Baker
Ave, Jeeves!
Emily Wilson: Rom(an) Com
* Plautine Elements in Plautus by Eduard Fraenkel, translated by Tomas Drevikovsky and Frances Muecke * Plautus: ‘Asinaria – The One about the Asses’ translated by John Henderson * Terence: The Comedies translated by Peter Brown * Terence: Comedies translated by Frederick Clayton
At Christie’s
Paul Myerscough: Buying Art Whoopers and Shouters
James Morone: on William Jennings Bryan
London Review of Books Is It Glamorous?
2008 – 30:5 David Simpson: Stefan Collini among the Intellectuals Articles * Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Riots, Terrorism etc Britain by Stefan Collini
John Lanchester: The Great British Press Short Cuts Disaster Jeremy Harding on Commemoration * Flat Earth News by Nick Davies Where Did the Hatred Go?
Letters Adam Phillips: Criticism without Malice Edward Pearce, Eamon Duffy, Aram Saroyan, Jenny Diski, Andrew * A Scholar’s Tale: Intellectual Jotischky, David Edgerton, Frank Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe Kermode, Ian Blake, Jonathan Smith, by Geoffrey Hartman Joshua Rahtz, Denis Feeney Iraq, 2 May 2005 A Lone Enraptured Male
Andrew O’Hagan: Two Soldiers Kathleen Jamie: The Cult of the Wild The Money * The Wild Places by Robert Adam Shatz: What the War is Costing Macfarlane Who Is Whose Enemy? Diary Patrick Cockburn: Sunni v. Shia v. the Yonatan Mendel: How to Become an US v. al-Qaida Israeli Journalist Feral Hippies
Theo Tait: Peter Carey goes astray
* His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
Hero as Hero
Tobias Gregory: Milton’s Terrorist
* Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings by Joseph Wittreich
At Tate Britain
Peter Campbell on Peter Doig London Review of Books Less than Perfectly Submissive
2008 – 30:6 Susan Pedersen: No Votes, Thank You
Articles * Women against the Vote: Female Anti-Suffragism in Britain by Julia Bush Letters So Much for Staying Single Max Trevitt, Amos Halevy, Stephen Wilson, Daniel Finn, James Sanders, Maya Jasanoff: 18th Century Calcutta Bruce Molloy, Tim Nau, Peter Dreyer, Christopher Campbell-Howes, George * Hartly House, Calcutta by Phebe Josephs Gibbes I’m a Surfer The Art of Being Found Out Steven Shapin: What’s the Genome Worth? Colm Tóibín on the need to be revealed Short Cuts * A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by Craig Venter Andrew O’Hagan: Dinner at the Digs Story: ‘Offences against the Person’ Adored Gazelle Hilary Mantel Ferdinand Mount: Cherubino at Number Geek Romance Ten Philip Connors on Junot Díaz * Balfour: The Last Grandee by R.J.Q. Adams * The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz Laptop Jihadi Some Sort of a Solution Adam Shatz: Theoretician of al-Qaida Charles Simic on Cavafy * Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of al-Qaida Strategist Abu Musab al-Suri * The Collected Poems by C.P. by Brynjar Lia Cavafy, translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou Poem: ‘An Essay Concerning Light’ * The Canon by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Stratis Haviaras John Burnside Did It Happen on 9 April? At the Movies
Frank Kermode on the Resurrection Michael Wood: Bertolucci’s The Conformist * The Resurrection by Geza Vermes
* The Conformist directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (1970)
You Have Never Written Better
Benjamin Markovits: Byron’s Editor
* The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron edited by Andrew Nicholson
Money, Lots of Money
Jolyon Leslie on Afghanistan A Short History
Jolyon Leslie At Tate Modern
Paul Myerscough on Juan Muñoz Steamy, Seamy
David Margolick: The Mob’s Cuban Kleptocracy
* The Havana Mob: Gangsters, Gamblers, Showgirls and Revolutionaries in 1950s Cuba by T.J. English
Diary
Jonathan Raban: I’m for Obama
London Review of Books * The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-77 by 2008 – 30:7 Gershom Gorenberg * Lords of the Land: The War over Articles Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007 by Idith Zertal Was it like this for the Irish? and Akiva Eldar
Gareth Peirce: The War on British At the National Gallery Muslims Letters Peter Campbell on Pompeo Batoni Whisky and Soda Man Roger James, Stan Smith, Felix Holmgren, Paul Anderson, Karl Thomas Jones on J.G. Ballard Sabbagh, Gordon Kerry, Yael Lotan, Cal Winslow, Judith Chernaik * Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Reality Check Shepperton – An Autobiography by J.G. Ballard Jeremy Waldron: The One Per Cent Doctrine Short Cuts
* Worst-Case Scenarios by Cass John Lanchester: Ken or Boris? Sunstein Menaces and Zanies
Poem: ‘Peonies’ Nicholas Spice on Hanif Kureishi
Stephen Burt * Something to Tell You by Hanif Extreme Understanding Kureishi
Jenny Diski on Irmgard Keun Into the Eisenshpritz
* Child of All Nations by Irmgard Elif Batuman: Superheroes Keun, translated by Michael Hofmann * Life, in Pictures: Autobiographical Witness Protection Stories by Will Eisner * Epileptic by David B. Lewis Siegelbaum: Communist Morality * Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine Buy this book * The Whisperers: Private Life in * Misery Loves Comedy by Ivan Stalin’s Russia by Orlando Figes Brunetti Grab more hills, expand the territory The Land East of the Asterisk Henry Siegman: The History of the Settlements Wendy Doniger on the Indo-Europeans
* Indo-European Poetry and Myth by M.L. West
Poem: ‘Le Rêve du jaguar’
Leconte de L’Isle Function v. Rhetoric
Peter Campbell: Engineers and Architects
* Architect and Engineer by Andrew Saint
Diary David Bromwich: President-Speak
London Review of Books James Wood on Adam Mars-Jones
2008 – 30:8 * Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones
Articles The Fishman lives the lore
The Special Motion of a Hand Elizabeth Lowry: Carpentaria
T.J. Clark: Courbet and Poussin at the * Carpentaria by Alexis Wright Met Letters subscriber-only content Poem: ‘Rota Fortuna’ Gordon Ross, Jessica Oh, Stephen Burt, Alyona Kozlova, Slavoj Žižek, Frank David Harsent Kermode The Divisions of Cyprus Pleasing the Tidy-Minded
Perry Anderson Ross McKibbin: Postwar Britain Two Poems * Austerity Britain, 1945-51 by David Colin Simms Kynaston At the Hayward Music Made Visible Peter Campbell: Alexander Rodchenko Clan Gatherings Stephen Walsh on Wagner
Inigo Thomas on the Bushes * Wagner and the Art of the Theatre by Patrick Carnegy * The Bush Tragedy: The Unmaking of a President by Jacob Weisberg Diary Patrick Cockburn: Muqtada al-Sadr Frocks and Shocks
Hilary Mantel on Jane Boleyn
* Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox
Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: The Italian Elections Losing Helen
John Burnside: A Memoir Nothing in a Really Big Way
London Review of Books * Madame Proust: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, translated by Alice 2008 – 30:9 Kaplan
Articles Short Cuts
Where do we go from here? Daniel Soar: Terror Suspects Homobesottedness R.W. Johnson on Zimbabwe Letters Peter Green: Love in Ancient Greece
Bill McIntosh, Stefan Collini, George * The Greeks and Greek Love: A Schlesinger, Russell Bennetts, Bill Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Barker, Michael Houstoun, Jean Elliott Ancient Greece by James Davidson Free-Marketeering At the Movies Stephen Holmes on Naomi Klein Michael Wood sees ‘Stop-Loss’ * The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein End-of-the-World Trade
Poem: ‘Critical Dialysis’ Donald MacKenzie on the credit crisis The Audience Throws Vegetables Wystan Curnow Father-Daughter Problems Colin Burrow on Salman Rushdie
Michael Dobson: Shakespeare’s Bad * The Enchantress of Florence by Daughters Salman Rushdie
* The Lodger: Shakespeare in Silver Poem: ‘The Sea Stick’ Street by Charles Nicholl Matthew Hollis Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Sonnet subscriber-only content Decrepit Lit
Barbara Everett rescues the Sonnets Lorna Scott Fox on David Lodge In Order of Rank * Deaf Sentence by David Lodge Jeremy Harding: Paris 1940 Two Poems * Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond David Wheatley * Journal 1942-44 by Hélène Berr Art Is a Cupboard!
Someone like Maman Tony Wood on Daniil Kharms
Elisabeth Ladenson on Proust’s mother * Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms edited and translated by Matvei Yankelevich
At the British Museum
Peter Campbell: American Prints
Diary
Manjushree Thapa: The Maoists Come to Powe
London Review of Books At the Grand Palais 2008 – 30:10 Hal Foster on Richard Serra Articles What does it mean to be a free person?
Letters Quentin Skinner on Milton Short Cuts William Mallinson, David Hannay, Reed Coughlan, Christopher Price, Robert Adam Shatz: ‘Immigration Removal Latypov and Aleksander Kalikh, Lewis Centres’ Siegelbaum, Ruth Tenne, Alan Rudrum, Unhoused Nick de Somogyi, Dave MacKay, Leslie Jackson Terry Eagleton on anonymity Dead Not Deid * Anonymity: A Secret History of James Meek: A Great Radical Modernist English Literature by John Mullan
* Kieron Smith, Boy by James Poem: ‘The Inversion of Simonides’ Kelman Line about the Sun’
The Calvinist International John Kinsella Howl, Howl, Howl! Colin Kidd on Hugh Trevor-Roper Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Fanny Kemble * The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History by Hugh Trevor-Roper * Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life * Europe’s Physician: The Various by Deirdre David Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne by Hugh Trevor-Roper Impervious to Draughts
Crabby, Prickly, Bitter, Harsh Rosemary Hill: Das englische Haus
Michael Wood: Tolstoy’s Malice * The English House by Hermann Muthesius, edited by Dennis Sharp, * War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Janet Seligman and Stewart translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Spencer Volokhonsky All There Needs to Be Said The Beautiful Micòl August Kleinzahler on Louis Zukofsky Dan Jacobson on Giorgio Bassani * The Poem of a Life: A Biography of * The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Louis Zukofsky by Mark Scroggins Giorgio Bassani, translated by Jamie Degoogled McKendrick Joanna Biggs on Keith Gessen
* All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
Diary
Kevin Kopelson: Confessions of a Plagiarist
London Review of Books Obey and Applaud
2008 – 30:11 Thomas Cohen: Exchanging Ideas in Early Modern Venice Articles * Information and Communication in Up from the Cellar Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics by Filippo de Vivo Nicholas Spice: The Interment of Elisabeth Fritzl No Ordinary Law
* Greed by Elfriede Jelinek, translated Stephen Sedley: Constitution-Makers by Martin Chalmers Short Cuts
Letters Andrew O’Hagan writes from Bethlehem William Grant, Shego Jinpa, Donald At the Movies Lopez, Michel Thibaud, Matthew Pires, Brian Vickers, Martin Sanderson, Salah Michael Wood: The Devil and Robert el Serafy, William Vesterman Bresson Blood on the Block Offered to the Gods Maurice Keen on Henry IV Frank Kermode: Sacrifice * The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of * Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death England’s Self-Made King by Ian in Literature and Opera by Derek Mortimer Hughes Feeling feeling Angry Duck Brian Dillon: Sense of Self Jenny Turner: Lorrie Moore * The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a * The Collected Stories by Lorrie Sensation by Daniel Heller-Roazen Moore Disasters and Disease A Bit of Ginger Hugh Pennington: The Dangerous Dead
Theo Tait: Gordon Burn What, even bedbugs? Jonathan Barnes: Demiurge at Work * Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel by Gordon Burn * Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity by David Sedley The Cattle-Prod Election Five Feet Tall in His Socks David Runciman: The Point of the Polls Patrick Collinson: Farewell to the Muggletonians
* Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History, 1652-1979 by William Lamont
In Bexhill Peter Campbell: Unpopular Culture
Diary Louisa Waugh: Living in Gaza
London Review of Books Peter Campbell: Open Sesame! 2008 – 30:12 The Vision Thing
Articles Eyal Press on Paul Krugman
Plato Made It Up * The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming America from the Right by James Davidson: Atlantis at Last! Paul Krugman
* The Atlantis Story: A Short History Three Poems of Plato’s Myth by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated by Janet Lloyd Bill Manhire The Olympics Scam Letters Iain Sinclair: The Razing of East London Verena Mayer and Roland Koberg, Pete Poem: ‘The Source’ Ayrton, Sven Anderson, Richard Davenport-Hines, Slavoj Žižek, Inigo Jean Sprackland Thomas, Laura Mansnerus, Richard Poem: ‘In the Afternoon’ Pevear, Garth Clarke, W.S. Milne, DeAnn DeLuna Charles Simic Iran v. America Short Cuts
Patrick Cockburn: A New Deal for Iraq John Lanchester: Who’s Afraid of the At Al Kibar Library of America? New Model Criticism Norman Dombey on the Syrian Sting Determinacy Kills Colin Burrow: Writing Under Cromwell
Terry Eagleton on Theodor Adorno * Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, * Theodor Adorno: One Last Genius Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham by Detlev Claussen by Blair Worden
Olmert and Friends Out of Puff
Uri Avnery: Sleaze in Israeli Politics Sam Thompson on Will Self His Generation * The Butt by Will Self Keith Gessen: A Sad Old Literary Man Who’d want to be a man? * Alfred Kazin: A Biography by Richard Cook Adam Phillips: A New Model of Sexuality At the Door * Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire by Lisa Diamond
The butler didn’t do it
Bee Wilson: The First Detectives
* The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
Fraught with Ought
Tim Crane: Wilfrid Sellars
* In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars edited by Kevin Scharp and Robert Brandom * Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images by Jay Rosenberg
Two Poems
Matthew Sweeney Diary
Thomas Jones: The Last Days of eBay
London Review of Books Eliot Weinberger: A Tale of Two Candidates 2008 – 30:13 Obama on Israel
Articles Uri Avnery: Controversy at the Aipac Conference Gazillions Tickle and Flutter
Neal Ascherson: Organised Crime Terry Castle: Maude Hutchins’s Revenge * McMafia: Crime without Frontiers Short Cuts by Misha Glenny Daniel Soar: David Davis v. Miss Great Letters Britain Kick over the Scenery Herbert Solow, Mark Engel, Paul Lindsey, Manjushree Thapa, Charles Stephen Burt on Philip K. Dick Bernstein, Paul Brassley, Paul Titchmarsh, Alistair Watson * Four Novels of the 1960s: ‘The Man subscriber-only content Poem: ‘The in the High Castle’, ‘The Three Stigmata Blind Dog’ of Palmer Eldritch’, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’, ‘Ubik’ by John Hartley Williams Philip K. Dick An Element of Unfairness * Five Novels of the 1960s and 1970s: ‘Martian Time-Slip’, ‘Dr Bloodmoney’, Ross McKibbin on the Great Education ‘Now Wait for Last Year’, ‘Flow My Disaster Tears, the Policeman Said’, ‘A Scanner At the Movies Darkly’ by Philip K. Dick
Michael Wood on David Lean Prosecco Notwithstanding subscriber-only content Beasts or Brothers? Tobias Gregory: 21st-Century Noir
John Elliott: When Columbus Met the * The Lemur by Benjamin Black Natives Let’s Do the Time Warp * The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus by Clair Wills on Modern Irish History David Abulafia * Hans Staden’s True History: An * Luck and the Irish: A Brief History Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil of Change c.1970-2000 by R.F. Foster edited and translated by Neil Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier ‘Because I am French!’
Obama v. Clinton: A Retrospective Ruth Scurr: Marie Antoinette’s Daughter
* Marie-Thérèse: The Fate of Marie Antoinette’s Daughter by Susan Nagel
At Tate Liverpool
Peter Campbell on Gustav Klimt Don’t flush the fish
John Whitfield: The End of the Coral Reef?
* Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve Jones * A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End by J.E.N. Veron
Poem: ‘Selected Monsters’
Steven Heighton Diary
Jenny Diski: On Not Liking South Africa
London Review of Books * Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars within by Shuja Nawaz 2008 – 30:14 Think Tiny Articles Mark Ford: Nancification Letters * The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard Allen Singer, Jason Farago, Colin Bloch, James Mosley, Peter Bourne, Ophelia Men in White Tshabalala, John Morris, Henry Fitch, Tim Gutteridge, Mike Harding Benjamin Kunkel: Another Ian Saved and Depoliticised at One Stroke McEwan!
Jeremy Harding on the Dangers of * Netherland by Joseph O’Neill Intervention Not My Fault Short Cuts
John Lanchester: New Labour’s Terrible Thomas Jones: Spies Wanted Memoirs Suicide by Mouth
* Speaking for Myself: The Deborah Friedell on Richard Price Autobiography by Cherie Blair * Prezza, My Story: Pulling No * Lush Life by Richard Price Punches by John Prescott, with Hunter Davies From the National Gallery to the Royal * A Question of Honour: Inside New Academy Labour and the True Story of the Cash for Peerages Scandal by Michael Levy Peter Campbell on the Divisionists and Vilhelm Hammershoi At the Movies The Daughter Who Hated Her
Andrew O’Hagan on M. Night Frank Kermode: Doris Lessing Shyamalan * Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing * The Happening directed by M. Night Shyamalan (2008) Keeping Their Distance
Next Door to War Charles Tripp: Muqtada al-Sadr
Tariq Ali: After Benazir * Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq by Patrick Cockburn * Descent into Chaos: How the War against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost Purgatory be damned in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid Diarmaid MacCulloch: The Dissolution of the Monasteries
* The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery by Geoffrey Moorhouse
My Faults, My Follies
Helen Deutsch: Laetitia Pilkington, ‘Foot-ball of Fortune’
* Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington by Norma Clarke
Poem: ‘Shoot the Freak’
August Kleinzahler The Perfect Plot Device
Dinah Birch: Governesses
* Other People’s Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess by Ruth Brandon
Diary
Sean Wilsey Goes Slow
London Review of Books * Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition by David Fearn 2008 – 30:15 Short Cuts Articles Jeremy Harding tries to listen to the Letters World Service The Iron Rule Tony Judge, Paul Francis, Eliot Weinberger, Neville Twitchell, Peter Jacqueline Rose: Bernhard Schlink’s Green, Rebecca French, Sean Gallagher, Guilt Charles Alverson When the Floods Came * Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Michael Henry Heim James Meek on England’s Water Poem: ‘Videlicet’ In the Park
R.F. Langley Peter Campbell: Frank Gehry’s Pavilion ‘Thanks a million, big fella’ Miniskirt Democracy
Daniel Finn: After Ahern Roxanne Varzi on Muslim Women’s Upwards and Onwards Memoirs
Stefan Collini: On Raymond Williams * Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit by Gillian Whitlock * Raymond Williams: A Warrior’s Tale by Dai Smith Oui Oyi Awè Jo Ja Oua
Two Poems Michael Sheringham: The French Provinces John Ashbery Act like Men, Britons! * The Discovery of France by Graham Robb Tom Shippey: Celticity Breath of Unreason * The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, edited by Megan Vaughan: Fanon’s Psychiatric Michael Reeve, translated by Neil Hospital Wright * The History of the Kings of Britain * Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in by Geoffrey of Monmouth French North Africa by Richard Keller
Flower or Fungus? The Ceasefire
Barbara Graziosi on Bacchylides Uri Avnery: Calm in Gaza Demon Cruelty
Eric Foner: What was it like on a slave ship?
* The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker
Diary
Jenny Diski tries to stay awake
London Review of Books Probably, Perhaps
2008 – 30:16 Dan Jacobson: Wilhelm von Habsburg
Articles * The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe Just Two Clicks by Timothy Snyder
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