Browse other issues from this year
Vol. 29 No. 20 · 18 October 2007
Jim Holt
It’s the Oil
Letters
Robert Horwood, Chris Purnell, Kenneth Hunter, Brian Lee, Inigo Thomas, Dinah Birch, Tom Phillips, Neil Ramsay
Tom Nairn
What Should the Left Propose? by Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Verso, 179 pp., £15, January 2006, 1 84467 048 1 The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound by Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Harvard, 277 pp., £19.95, February 2007, 978 0 674 02354 3 Une brève histoire de l’avenir by Jacques Attali. Fayard, 432 pp., €20, October 2006, 2 213 63130 1
August Kleinzahler
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama. Canongate, 442 pp., £12.99, September 2007, 978 1 84767 091 5 The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama. Canongate, 375 pp., £14.99, May 2007, 978 1 84767 035 9 Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell. Amistad, 406 pp., $25.95, August 2007, 978 0 06 085820 9
John Lanchester
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler. Vintage, 864 pp., £9.99, October 2006, 0 09 950616 5
Joshua Kurlantzick
Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi by Justin Wintle. Hutchinson, 450 pp., £18.99, April 2007, 978 0 09 179651 8
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England by David Loades. National Archives, 240 pp., £19.99, September 2006, 1 903365 98 8
Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘Signs on a White Field’
Natalie Zemon Davis
Who Are You? Identification, Deception and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe by Valentin Groebner, translated by Mark Kyburz and John Peck. Zone, 349 pp., £18.95, April 2007, 978 1 890951 72 6
Jerry Fodor
Why Pigs Don’t Have Wings
Jenny Diski
Short Cuts: Internet Misfit
Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘3.10 to Yuma’, 1957 & 2007
Jeremy Harding
The Original Rules of Rugby edited by Jed Smith. Bodleian, 64 pp., £5.99, September 2007, 978 1 85124 371 6
T.P. Wiseman
Caesar’s Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History by Denis Feeney. California, 372 pp., £18.95, June 2007, 978 0 520 25119 9
Rosemary Hill
At the Royal Academy: The Treasures of the Society of Antiquaries
Eleanor Birne
The Gathering by Anne Enright. Cape, 261 pp., £12.99, May 2007, 978 0 224 07873 3
Daniel Soar
The Rain before It Falls by Jonathan Coe. Viking, 274 pp., £17.99, September 2007, 978 0 670 91728 0
Ciaran Carson
Poem: ‘The Story of Alouette’
Neal Ascherson
Diary: among the icebergs
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.