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Contents

Vol. 29 No. 4   ·   22 February 2007

Other Lives

M.F. Burnyeat: The Truth about Pythagoras

  • Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching and Influence by Christoph Riedweg, translated by Steven Rendall  Buy this book
  • Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History by Charles Kahn  Buy this book

Letters

John Richmond, Michael Williams, Anders Stephanson, Gerard McBurney, Martin Harris, Cleveland Moffett, George Hornby, Jeremy Harte, Paul Driver

Don’t you care?

Michael Wood on Richard Powers

An Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Peter Hallward speaks to Haiti's former president

Peter Campbell on Anselm Kiefer

Patrick Cockburn reports from Iraq

Glen Bowersock: Rome versus Jerusalem

  • Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilisations by Martin Goodman  Buy this book

At the Movies

Michael Wood on Kurosawa

Tom Shippey on medieval schooling

  • Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Renaissance England by Nicholas Orme  Buy this book

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: Caesar’s Birthday

Patrick Collinson on John Wyclif

Robert Crawford on George Mackay Brown

  • George Mackay Brown: The Life by Maggie Fergusson
  • The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown edited by Archie Bevan and Brian Murray  Buy this book

Rosemary Hill on Beatrix Potter

Susan Wicks

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas: Dogs and Scholarship

R.W. Johnson

Diary

Yonatan Mendel at the Herzliya Conference

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Woodchip paper with red stain

Featured articles

Other Lives
M.F. Burnyeat: The Truth about Pythagoras

Don’t you care?
Michael Wood on Richard Powers

An Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Peter Hallward speaks to Haiti's former president

Diary
Yonatan Mendel at the Herzliya Conference

At the Movies
Michael Wood on Kurosawa

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: Caesar’s Birthday