Browse other issues from this year
Vol. 29 No. 9 · 10 May 2007
Michael Dobson
William Shakespeare, Complete Works: The RSC Shakespeare edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen. Macmillan, 2486 pp., £30, April 2007, 978 0 230 00350 7
Letters
Yigal Bronner and Neve Gordon, Ian Fairlie, Peter Arnott, Alex Bailin, Jeremy Harding, David Craig
Perry Anderson
The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power by James Traub. Bloomsbury, 442 pp., £20, November 2006, 0 7475 8087 1 Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War by Stanley Meisler. Wiley, 384 pp., £19.99, January 2007, 978 0 471 78744 0
Susan Pedersen
A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe by Chris Wrigley. Tauris, 439 pp., £25, August 2006, 1 86064 286 1
Frank Kermode
Fiction and E.M. Forster
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: How to Type like a Man
Judith Butler
The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron Feldman. Schocken, 559 pp., $35, March 2007, 978 0 8052 4238 6
Nick Laird
Two Poems
Ian Hacking
The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature by Pierre Hadot, translated by Michael Chase. Harvard, 399 pp., £19.95, November 2006, 0 674 02316 1
Hugh Pennington
The Problem with Biodiversity
Peter Campbell
In Regent Street: A Mile of Style
Edward Tenner
The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 by David Edgerton. Profile, 270 pp., £18.99, January 2007, 978 1 86197 296 5
Inigo Thomas
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964-2006 by Gore Vidal. Little, Brown, 278 pp., £17.99, November 2006, 0 316 02727 8
Charles Simic
Poem: ‘Extracts from Notebooks 1996-2006’
Jessica Olin
College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens and Coeds, Then and Now by Lynn Peril. Norton, 408 pp., £10.99, October 2006, 0 393 32715 9
Sameer Rahim
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al-Aswany, translated by Humphrey Davies. Fourth Estate, 255 pp., £14.99, February 2007, 978 0 00 724361 7
Anne Enright
Diary: Listen to Heloïse
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.