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Contents

Vol. 29 No. 10   ·   24 May 2007

The Things We Throw Away

Andrew O’Hagan: The Garbage of England

Letters

Edward Mortimer, Rebecca Solnit, Paul Landau, Michael Hodder, Sean Coleman, Imogen Green, George Norton, Leslie Houlden, David Ganz

Headaches have themselves

Jerry Fodor: Panpsychism

  • Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism? by Galen Strawson et al  Buy this book

Peter Campbell: Copying the Masters

Blair Worden: Aristocrats v. the King

  • The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I by John Adamson  Buy this book

Adeeb Khalid: Catherine the Great’s Ulama

  • For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia by Robert Crews  Buy this book

Jean Sprackland

Sadakat Kadri: American Trials

Short Cuts

John Sturrock: Blair’s Convictions

Adam Kuper on Margaret Mead

  • To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead edited by Margaret Caffrey and Patricia Francis  Buy this book

Hermione Lee: Boston Marriage

  • Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus  Buy this book

At the Movies

Michael Wood sees Spider-Man 3

Keep Calm

Rosemary Hill: Desperate Housewives

  • Can Any Mother Help Me? Fifty Years of Friendship through a Secret Magazine by Jenna Bailey  Buy this book

Thomas Jones: Peter Ho Davies

Mark Ford

  • The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie edited by Donald Blount  Buy this book

W.G. Runciman: Exit Blair

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Girl on a bicycle

Featured articles

The Things We Throw Away
Andrew O’Hagan: The Garbage of England

Headaches have themselves
Jerry Fodor: Panpsychism

Keep Calm
Rosemary Hill: Desperate Housewives

Short Cuts
John Sturrock: Blair’s Convictions

At the Movies
Michael Wood sees Spider-Man 3