2008 – 30:1
* A Life of Picasso, Vol. III: The
Triumphant Years 1917-32 by John
Richardson
Articles
Gloomy/Cheerful
What I Didn’t Do in 2007
Tom Shippey on Norse mythology
Alan Bennett’s year
Letters
* From Asgard to Valhalla: The
Remarkable History of the Norse Myths
by Heather O’Donoghue
London Review of Books
Max Zweig, Joel Berglund, David
Graeber, Sam Abrams, Simon
Blackburn, Jerry Coyne, Philip Kitcher,
Tim Lewens and Steven Rose, Jerry
Fodor, Sheldon Litt, Richard McClean,
James Valentine, Nazir Dhoki
Cityphilia
John Lanchester on the credit crunch
Marvellous Money
Michael Wood: Eça de Queirós
* The Maias: Episodes from Romantic
Life by José Maria Eça de Queirós,
translated by Margaret Jull Costa
A Man with My Trouble
Colm Tóibín: Henry James leaves home
* The Complete Letters of Henry
James, 1855-72: Volume I edited by
Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias
Cape of Mad Hope
Neal Ascherson on the Darien disaster
* The Price of Scotland: Darien,
Union and the Wealth of Nations by
Douglas Watt
Short Cuts
Adam Shatz: Condoleezza Rice
subscriber-only content Brown and
Friends
David Runciman: Brown and Friends
subscriber-only content Success and
James Maxton
Inigo Thomas: Success and James
Maxton
subscriber-only content In Your Guts
You Know He’s Nuts
Thomas Sugrue on Barry Goldwater
* The Complete Letters of Henry
James, 1855-72: Volume II edited by
Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias
* The Conscience of a Conservative
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
Articles
* The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics
and the Modern West by Mark Lilla
That Wilting Flower
Three Poems
Hilary Mantel: The Lure of the
Unexplained
Hugo Williams
At the National Gallery
* Chambers Dictionary of the
Unexplained edited by Una McGovern
Peter Campbell: Good Enough to Eat
Coruscating on Thin Ice
Letters
Terry Eagleton: The Divine Spark
Martha Roth, Alan Myers, Charles
Turner, Anthony Rudolf, Glenn Lang,
Slavoj Žižek, Ross McKibbin, Stephen
Sasse, Eamonn Grogan, Rob Best, John
Gretton, Ben Bollig, Valentin
Lyubarsky, Donal Ó Drisceoil, Cliff
Hawkins, Robert Berold
* Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins
by Peter Conrad
Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: Blogged Down
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
* Crossfire by Andy McNab
* Strike Back by Chris Ryan
Praise Yah
* The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by
G.B. Edwards
When We Were Nicer
Steven Mithen: History Seen as
Neurochemistry
Eliot Weinberger on the Psalms
* The Book of Psalms: A Translation
with Commentary by Robert Alter
Separation Anxiety
* On Deep History and the Brain by
Daniel Lord Smail
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
* The Fox and the Flies: The World of
Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath
by Charles van Onselen
* Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems
edited by Peter McDonald
* Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems
edited by Michael Longley
* I Crossed the Minch by Louis
MacNeice
* The Strings Are False: An
Unfinished Autobiography by Louis
MacNeice, edited by E.R. Dodds
Letters
With Slip and Slapdash
Augustus Young, Andreas Wesemann,
W.G. Runciman, George Poles, Michael
Goldsmith, Sean Gallagher, John
Sutherland, Philip Booth
This Way to the Ruin
Frank Kermode: Auden’s Prose
David Runciman on the British
Constitution
‘Derek, please, not so fast’
Ferdinand Mount on Derek Jackson
* The British Constitution by Anthony
King
* As I Was Going to St Ives: A Life of
Derek Jackson by Simon Courtauld
Disaffiliate, Reaffiliate, Kill Again
Short Cuts
Jeremy Harding: Régis Debray
Daniel Soar on the Arts Council
Wall of Ice
Who was he?
Charles Nicholl: Joe the Ripper
* Praised Be Our Lords: The
Autobiography by Régis Debray,
translated by John Howe
Gaza’s Future
Henry Siegman: Breaching the Barrier
Planes, Trains and SUVs
* The Complete Works of W.H.
Auden. Vol. III: Prose, 1949-55 edited
by Edward Mendelson
Peter Thonemann: Pattison’s
Scholarship
* Intellect and Character in Victorian
England: Mark Pattison and the
Invention of the Don by H.S. Jones
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
2008 – 30:4
* City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek
Lives in Roman Egypt by Peter Parsons
Articles
A, E , C, B
Ordained as a Nation
Paul Driver: Robert Schumann
Pankaj Mishra: Exporting Democracy
* The Wilsonian Moment: SelfDetermination and the International
Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by
Erez Manela
* Robert Schumann: Life and Death
of a Musician by John Worthen
* The Cambridge Companion to
Schumann edited by Beate Perrey
* Schumann’s Late Style by Laura
Tunbridge
Letters
At the Movies
Karon Monaghan, Jenny Chamier
Grove, Malcolm Deas, Robert Steele,
Ian Birchall, Chris Sinha, Eric
Hobsbawm, Eric Dickens, Michael Hill,
Martin Ward, Ted McFadyen, Hugh
Wright, Natalie Matter
Friendly Fire
Michael Wood: ‘No Country for Old
Men’
Bernard Porter: Torching the White
House
Megan Marshall: The Death of Edgar
Allan Poe
* Fusiliers: Eight Years with the
Redcoats in America by Mark Urban
* 1812: War with America by Jon
Latimer
* Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter
Ackroyd
Poem: ‘Glamourie’
Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley
Kathleen Jamie
Mr Big & Co
Glorious and Most Glorious City of the
Oxyrhinchites
* The Collected Poems of Robert
Creeley: 1945-75
* The Collected Poems of Robert
Creeley: 1975-2005
* On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay
by Robert Creeley
* Selected Poems: 1945-2005 by
Robert Creeley, edited by Benjamin
Friedlander
Christopher Kelly on Roman Egypt
Short Cuts
Denis Feeney: Roman Victory!
* The Roman Triumph by Mary Beard
* No Country for Old Men directed by
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2008)
Pretty Letters
What Life Says to Us
Hugh Pennington: Bluetongue
Drowned in Eau de Vie
* A Godly Hero: The Life of William
Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin
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
Riots, Terrorism etc
John Lanchester: The Great British Press
Disaster
* Flat Earth News by Nick Davies
* Absent Minds: Intellectuals in
Britain by Stefan Collini
Short Cuts
Jeremy Harding on Commemoration
Where Did the Hatred Go?
Letters
Edward Pearce, Eamon Duffy, Aram
Saroyan, Jenny Diski, Andrew
Jotischky, David Edgerton, Frank
Kermode, Ian Blake, Jonathan Smith,
Joshua Rahtz, Denis Feeney
Iraq, 2 May 2005
Adam Phillips: Criticism without Malice
Andrew O’Hagan: Two Soldiers
The Money
Kathleen Jamie: The Cult of the Wild
Adam Shatz: What the War is Costing
Who Is Whose Enemy?
Patrick Cockburn: Sunni v. Shia v. the
US v. al-Qaida
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
* A Scholar’s Tale: Intellectual
Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe
by Geoffrey Hartman
A Lone Enraptured Male
* The Wild Places by Robert
Macfarlane
Diary
Yonatan Mendel: How to Become an
Israeli Journalist
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,
Bruce Molloy, Tim Nau, Peter Dreyer,
Christopher Campbell-Howes, George
Josephs
I’m a Surfer
Maya Jasanoff: 18th Century Calcutta
* Hartly House, Calcutta by Phebe
Gibbes
The Art of Being Found Out
Steven Shapin: What’s the Genome
Worth?
* A Life Decoded: My Genome: My
Life by Craig Venter
Colm Tóibín on the need to be revealed
Short Cuts
Andrew O’Hagan: Dinner at the Digs
Story: ‘Offences against the Person’
Adored Gazelle
Ferdinand Mount: Cherubino at Number
Ten
Hilary Mantel
Geek Romance
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
by Brynjar Lia
Poem: ‘An Essay Concerning Light’
John Burnside
Did It Happen on 9 April?
Frank Kermode on the Resurrection
* The Resurrection by Geza Vermes
* The Collected Poems by C.P.
Cavafy, translated by Evangelos
Sachperoglou
* The Canon by C.P. Cavafy,
translated by Stratis Haviaras
At the Movies
Michael Wood: Bertolucci’s The
Conformist
* 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
2008 – 30:7
Articles
Was it like this for the Irish?
Gareth Peirce: The War on British
Muslims
Letters
Roger James, Stan Smith, Felix
Holmgren, Paul Anderson, Karl
Sabbagh, Gordon Kerry, Yael Lotan, Cal
Winslow, Judith Chernaik
Reality Check
* The Accidental Empire: Israel and
the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-77 by
Gershom Gorenberg
* Lords of the Land: The War over
Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied
Territories, 1967-2007 by Idith Zertal
and Akiva Eldar
At the National Gallery
Peter Campbell on Pompeo Batoni
Whisky and Soda Man
Thomas Jones on J.G. Ballard
* Miracles of Life: Shanghai to
Shepperton – An Autobiography by J.G.
Ballard
Jeremy Waldron: The One Per Cent
Doctrine
Short Cuts
* Worst-Case Scenarios by Cass
Sunstein
John Lanchester: Ken or Boris?
Menaces and Zanies
Poem: ‘Peonies’
Nicholas Spice on Hanif Kureishi
Stephen Burt
Extreme Understanding
* Something to Tell You by Hanif
Kureishi
Jenny Diski on Irmgard Keun
Into the Eisenshpritz
* Child of All Nations by Irmgard
Keun, translated by Michael Hofmann
Elif Batuman: Superheroes
Witness Protection
Lewis Siegelbaum: Communist Morality
* The Whisperers: Private Life in
Stalin’s Russia by Orlando Figes
Grab more hills, expand the territory
* Life, in Pictures: Autobiographical
Stories by Will Eisner
* Epileptic by David B.
* Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
Buy this book
* Misery Loves Comedy by Ivan
Brunetti
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
2008 – 30:8
James Wood on Adam Mars-Jones
* 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
Met
Letters
Gordon Ross, Jessica Oh, Stephen Burt,
Alyona Kozlova, Slavoj Žižek, Frank
Kermode
The Divisions of Cyprus
Perry Anderson
Two Poems
Colin Simms
At the Hayward
* Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
subscriber-only content Poem: ‘Rota
Fortuna’
David Harsent
Pleasing the Tidy-Minded
Ross McKibbin: Postwar Britain
* Austerity Britain, 1945-51 by David
Kynaston
Music Made Visible
Peter Campbell: Alexander Rodchenko
Clan Gatherings
Inigo Thomas on the Bushes
* The Bush Tragedy: The Unmaking
of a President by Jacob Weisberg
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
Stephen Walsh on Wagner
* Wagner and the Art of the Theatre
by Patrick Carnegy
Diary
Patrick Cockburn: Muqtada al-Sadr
2008 – 30:9
* Madame Proust: A Biography by
Evelyne Bloch-Dano, translated by Alice
Kaplan
Articles
Short Cuts
Where do we go from here?
Daniel Soar: Terror Suspects
Homobesottedness
London Review of Books
R.W. Johnson on Zimbabwe
Letters
Bill McIntosh, Stefan Collini, George
Schlesinger, Russell Bennetts, Bill
Barker, Michael Houstoun, Jean Elliott
Free-Marketeering
Peter Green: Love in Ancient Greece
* The Greeks and Greek Love: A
Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in
Ancient Greece by James Davidson
At the Movies
Stephen Holmes on Naomi Klein
* The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Poem: ‘Critical Dialysis’
Michael Wood sees ‘Stop-Loss’
End-of-the-World Trade
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
Daughters
* The Enchantress of Florence by
Salman Rushdie
* The Lodger: Shakespeare in Silver
Street by Charles Nicholl
Poem: ‘The Sea Stick’
Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Sonnet
Barbara Everett rescues the Sonnets
In Order of Rank
Matthew Hollis
subscriber-only content Decrepit Lit
Lorna Scott Fox on David Lodge
* Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
Jeremy Harding: Paris 1940
Two Poems
* Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by
Hanna Diamond
* Journal 1942-44 by Hélène Berr
David Wheatley
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
Articles
Letters
William Mallinson, David Hannay, Reed
Coughlan, Christopher Price, Robert
Latypov and Aleksander Kalikh, Lewis
Siegelbaum, Ruth Tenne, Alan Rudrum,
Nick de Somogyi, Dave MacKay, Leslie
Jackson
Dead Not Deid
Hal Foster on Richard Serra
What does it mean to be a free person?
Quentin Skinner on Milton
Short Cuts
Adam Shatz: ‘Immigration Removal
Centres’
Unhoused
Terry Eagleton on anonymity
James Meek: A Great Radical Modernist
* Anonymity: A Secret History of
English Literature by John Mullan
* Kieron Smith, Boy by James
Kelman
Poem: ‘The Inversion of Simonides’
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
* Europe’s Physician: The Various
Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne by
Hugh Trevor-Roper
* Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life
by Deirdre David
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,
translated by Janet Seligman and Stewart
Spencer
* War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy,
translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa
Volokhonsky
All There Needs to Be Said
The Beautiful Micòl
August Kleinzahler on Louis Zukofsky
Dan Jacobson on Giorgio Bassani
* The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by
Giorgio Bassani, translated by Jamie
McKendrick
* The Poem of a Life: A Biography of
Louis Zukofsky by Mark Scroggins
Degoogled
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
Up from the Cellar
* Information and Communication in
Venice: Rethinking Early Modern
Politics by Filippo de Vivo
Nicholas Spice: The Interment of
Elisabeth Fritzl
No Ordinary Law
* Greed by Elfriede Jelinek, translated
by Martin Chalmers
Stephen Sedley: Constitution-Makers
Short Cuts
Letters
Andrew O’Hagan writes from
Bethlehem
At the Movies
William Grant, Shego Jinpa, Donald
Lopez, Michel Thibaud, Matthew Pires,
Brian Vickers, Martin Sanderson, Salah
el Serafy, William Vesterman
Michael Wood: The Devil and Robert
Bresson
Blood on the Block
Offered to the Gods
Maurice Keen on Henry IV
Frank Kermode: Sacrifice
* Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death
in Literature and Opera by Derek
Hughes
* The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of
England’s Self-Made King by Ian
Mortimer
Feeling feeling
Angry Duck
Brian Dillon: Sense of Self
Jenny Turner: Lorrie Moore
* The Collected Stories by Lorrie
Moore
A Bit of Ginger
Theo Tait: Gordon Burn
* Born Yesterday: The News as a
Novel by Gordon Burn
* The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a
Sensation by Daniel Heller-Roazen
Disasters and Disease
Hugh Pennington: The Dangerous Dead
What, even bedbugs?
Jonathan Barnes: Demiurge at Work
* 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
2008 – 30:12
Peter Campbell: Open Sesame!
The Vision Thing
Articles
Eyal Press on Paul Krugman
Plato Made It Up
* The Conscience of a Liberal:
Reclaiming America from the Right by
Paul Krugman
James Davidson: Atlantis at Last!
* The Atlantis Story: A Short History
of Plato’s Myth by Pierre Vidal-Naquet,
translated by Janet Lloyd
Three Poems
Bill Manhire
The Olympics Scam
Letters
Verena Mayer and Roland Koberg, Pete
Ayrton, Sven Anderson, Richard
Davenport-Hines, Slavoj Žižek, Inigo
Thomas, Laura Mansnerus, Richard
Pevear, Garth Clarke, W.S. Milne,
DeAnn DeLuna
Iran v. America
Patrick Cockburn: A New Deal for Iraq
At Al Kibar
Norman Dombey on the Syrian Sting
Determinacy Kills
Iain Sinclair: The Razing of East London
Poem: ‘The Source’
Jean Sprackland
Poem: ‘In the Afternoon’
Charles Simic
Short Cuts
John Lanchester: Who’s Afraid of the
Library of America?
New Model Criticism
Colin Burrow: Writing Under Cromwell
* Theodor Adorno: One Last Genius
by Detlev Claussen
* Literature and Politics in
Cromwellian England: John Milton,
Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham
by Blair Worden
Olmert and Friends
Out of Puff
Uri Avnery: Sleaze in Israeli Politics
His Generation
Sam Thompson on Will Self
Terry Eagleton on Theodor Adorno
* 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
At the Door
Adam Phillips: A New Model of
Sexuality
* 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
2008 – 30:13
Articles
Gazillions
Neal Ascherson: Organised Crime
* McMafia: Crime without Frontiers
by Misha Glenny
Letters
Herbert Solow, Mark Engel, Paul
Lindsey, Manjushree Thapa, Charles
Bernstein, Paul Brassley, Paul
Titchmarsh, Alistair Watson
subscriber-only content Poem: ‘The
Blind Dog’
John Hartley Williams
An Element of Unfairness
Ross McKibbin on the Great Education
Disaster
At the Movies
Michael Wood on David Lean
subscriber-only content Beasts or
Brothers?
John Elliott: When Columbus Met the
Natives
Eliot Weinberger: A Tale of Two
Candidates
Obama on Israel
Uri Avnery: Controversy at the Aipac
Conference
Tickle and Flutter
Terry Castle: Maude Hutchins’s
Revenge
Short Cuts
Daniel Soar: David Davis v. Miss Great
Britain
Kick over the Scenery
Stephen Burt on Philip K. Dick
* Four Novels of the 1960s: ‘The Man
in the High Castle’, ‘The Three Stigmata
of Palmer Eldritch’, ‘Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep?’, ‘Ubik’ by
Philip K. Dick
* Five Novels of the 1960s and 1970s:
‘Martian Time-Slip’, ‘Dr Bloodmoney’,
‘Now Wait for Last Year’, ‘Flow My
Tears, the Policeman Said’, ‘A Scanner
Darkly’ by Philip K. Dick
Prosecco Notwithstanding
Tobias Gregory: 21st-Century Noir
* The Lemur by Benjamin Black
Let’s Do the Time Warp
* The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic
Encounters in the Age of Columbus by
David Abulafia
* Hans Staden’s True History: An
Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil
edited and translated by Neil Whitehead
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Obama v. Clinton: A Retrospective
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