Browse other issues from this year
Vol. 29 No. 5 · 8 March 2007
Letters
Neal Hodge, William Lamont, John Hyman, Gerald Carpenter, D.E. Steward, Marcia Pointon, Tim Allen, John Moisson, Barrie Lees, Tom O’Hagan
Mahmood Mamdani
The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency
Peter Campbell
At Tate Britain: Turner's Rigi watercolours
Bruce Ackerman
Meritocracy v. Democracy
Alan Bennett
Story: ‘The Uncommon Reader’
Deborah Friedell
Short Cuts: American Girls
Jorie Graham
Two Poems
Jeremy Harding
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis. Verso, 228 pp., £15.99, March 2006, 1 84467 022 8 Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis. Verso, 228 pp., £12.99, March 2007, 978 1 84467 132 8
Uri Avnery
Next to Israel, not in place of it
John Pemble
Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain by Judith Flanders. HarperPress, 604 pp., £20, August 2006, 0 00 717295 8
Ruth Padel
Poem: ‘Slices of Toast’
Barry Schwartz
The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950 by Avner Offer. Oxford, 454 pp., £30, March 2006, 0 19 820853 7
Peter Barham
History of Madness by Michel Foucault, edited by Jean Khalfa, translated by Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa. Routledge, 725 pp., £35, April 2006, 0 415 27701 9
Frank Kermode
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Bernard O’Donoghue. Penguin, 94 pp., £8.99, August 2006, 0 14 042453 9 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage. Faber, 114 pp., £12.99, January 2007, 978 0 571 22327 5
Thomas Jones
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace. Picador, 309 pp., £16.99, March 2007, 978 0 330 44562 7
J. Robert Lennon
Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen. Cape, 272 pp., £12.99, April 2007, 978 0 224 07272 4
Julie Elkner
Tear Off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia by Sheila Fitzpatrick. Princeton, 332 pp., £15.95, July 2005, 0 691 12245 8
Roxanne Varzi
Diary: At the Martyrs’ Museum
Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.
Sign up to our newsletter
For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.